I think so. You just gotta aim a bit lower.

That's JulmaHerra-style response. Nothing is perfect but my point is, you can live with dripping taps but not with a leaky roof. What Jolla did was go and decorate the guest bedroom while the roof was leaking, the taps were dripping, the windows were draughty and the floors were all warped.

Priorities, man, priorities.

I take issue with using the word "open". It reminds me of another Communist time joke (with apologies to any Russians here: I did not make it up, just reproducing):

A Brit, a Frenchman and a Russian are viewing a painting of Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden.
"Look at their reserve, their calm," muses the Brit. "They must be British."
"Nonsense," the Frenchman disagrees. "They're naked, and so beautiful. Clearly, they are French."
"No clothes, no shelter," the Russian points out, "they have only an apple to eat, and they're being told this is paradise. They are certainly Russian."

We, the users, are like Adam and Eve in that joke. Jolla kept overusing the words "open", "people-" or "community-driven" et cetera, but the reality was far from that. They were as closed as they possibly could, and only disclosed anything if there was absolutely no way around. We were told that this is paradise and some users swallowed it.

That depends on how you define hope. Sure there is no hope against Apple or Google. The answer to that is, do not try to beat them. Aim lower. Be a small player on your own terms. Like Firefox or Ubuntu.