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	ZogG	2015-07-04 , 13:33
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Originally Posted by r0kk3rz

I think your sense of scale is a little off here, there was 1200 keyboards made and rough guestimates put the number of Jolla Phones at around 50k-100k. This isn't really "most Jolla fans" as you put it.

Bringing a smarphone to market with a new operating system not based off android is a monumental achievement, the TOHKBD project kinda pales in comparison. Of course the TOHKBD guys did a fantastic job and I hope everyone is happy with their keyboards, and it also does not excuse the radio silence from Jolla about the Tablet, but comparing the two projects really is like comparing Oranges to Battleships.

I wouldn't argue, I just want to mention that even the number (i think they said they'll publish it) of tablets is not advertised their. And as i see it, it's not even 50k.
from jolla campaign page:

$2,553,921USD
total funds raised

While price is more than 200$ (and there is shipping cost)
that would be about 12700 tablets (there are other perks like covers right?)
and other quote:

A BIG thank you for all 21,569 contributors for making Jolla Tablet the most funded Indiegogo campaign ever in Asia and Europe!

So i'm not sure how many but not 100K :P
And again they are company vs 3 people, and OS was there, it's not like they did it from scratch. It's HW that supports Android and there are people who ported Sailfish to other platforms from community without even internal code and resources from 3rd party HW.
So yes, it's not the same, but again if you don't like TOHKBD example, check Pebble Time(own HW and not copycat tablet(Jolla tablet is not that original in HW wise) and OWN OS that they had to totally redesign and even keep backward compatibility. Btw they had campaign after Jolla or about same time and watches are already out there) or any other project that gathered way more than Jolla and not bigger than Jolla, but they had no problems to communicate with community and even change things according to feedback.

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