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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
In this particular case, yes, you can say, "It's the bloody manufacturers, it's their fault, they are bloody cowards and do not want to risk anything".
Or you can say, "We have so far failed to persuade the manufactures to try our alternative, where have we made mistakes and how can we alleviate them?"

Which one is more constructive?
Um... actually I said that manufacturers are reluctant to put significant amount of funding into a platform that almost nobody has even heard about before. I also said that there are reasons for it, ie. thin margins or manufacturing business that is already not profitable even with platform that enjoys majority of market share. It's more like stating the obvious rather than finding someone to blame. Jolla did their best (and still do if the financing round is finished and story continues in some form for another year), but it takes more than just a good product to penetrate market and convince others to join. It takes resources, which Jolla has always been short of, and demand, which also doesn't seem to exist in significant numbers, and time to implement and polish everything, which in Jolla's case is also heavily dependent on continuing flow of investor money until there are enough manufacturers (like Intex) willing to place bet on Sailfish and generate income to keep Jolla afloat on income. Jolla can only do as much as their resources enable them to do and if it's not enough, only lesson to be learned is not to try again without big company backing since from the beginning instead of relying on anything community based. It can be a valuable lesson you know...
 

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