Hmm... to turn this around, you just need what has existed for over 40 years. An easy to implement terminal. In fact, feel free to bicker if bash, zsh or whatever terminal is your favorite.

I know your tone is playful, but let's be honest. As a person also with an IT background, I used to do all of my work on a Nokia 770. The Jolla tablet would more than be efficient in doing that work.

Actually, I'm now an advocate for the users. Sadly, not many devs think outside of themselves now it seems. **** has just gotten uglier, more inconsistent and almost as unusable as before. Enjoy it while it lasts - those products never reach critical mass and fade away into legends that are oft over-bloated and not worth mentioning unless you're feeling nostalgic.

Actually, it's all there in Android. But I'd rather involve as little as possible any Android whatsoever. The tablet, to reach more folks, actually might need more than just a terminal - which I actually do use as well.

I've oft stated this one point in the past... no perfectly fine-tuned piece of hardware matched with efficient software has done well. Ever. Psion, Maemo, MeeGo... all gone, dead, forgotten, still worshipped.

Yet the mediocre hardware and OS (iOS, Android for instance) seems to flourish. It's nothing more than convenience, acceptance rate and marketing somehow makes folks want it more than they should. Embedded Linux should reign supreme. Hell, I'm still waiting on the "year of the Linux desktop" to happen (it won't).

But for bulletproof systems, I use Linux.

It would be nice for Jolla to have a future that includes more people than just a bunch of terminal happy nerds that still bicker over shells, text editors and rarely complete a project that doesn't look (or work) like it got hit with the entire ugly tree.