I don't know that Jolla have much useful input on the latter.

I don't think any of Intex's existing phones are their own ... they're all the off-the-shelf OEM ones that dozens of other 'value' brands in Asia also use. Supposedly they're building their own factories for future in-house production of mobiles and other electronics ... from what I could gather, they're either getting tax breaks or grants to do so, as part of a "Made in India" push by government and industrialists. It's possible that the "Aqua Fish" line could be designed in house and produced at these new facilities ... however I don't think that'd be a good thing initially, given that it'll be their first try.

Main issue I see is that Jolla are obviously targeting the cheap, value brands in India and China, yet they've done all the work to make Qualcomm the reference platform ... which is the opposite of what these OEMs or resellers want, as they can get low to mid end Mediatek (or other) SoCs for much less money and typically with performance at least a pricing tier above what QC offer, and with cheaper PCBs. Fair enough if they were targeting brands like Xiaomi, but that's realistically never going to happen.

Hopefully though the core features of SF will now more or less work on all new QC SD chipsets, and Jolla will update the HADK significantly, which would be a major boon with 2 new Nexus phones coming out this year.

There's now complete silence on the Intel compatibility front ... I assume feedback during and after MWC (Barca) was that no-one was interested. Hopefully it didn't divert too many resources, even if Intel were funding and underwriting the whole thing.

Yes, but Android apps in Alien Dalvik. Their Sailfish web page just has straight grabs from iPhones and Android. Maybe they're going to produce the first 3rd party iOS phone, and it'll triple-boot with Sailfish and Android