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	Copernicus	2015-11-20 , 11:41
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Originally Posted by pichlo

You don't get it, do you? Nothing you say makes a shred of difference to Jolla.

Wow.

They are indeed a corporation, and therefore do tend to act in ways that are not necessarily aligned with individual folks. But I've gotta say, as a guy in the US, Jolla has a lot more interest in and interaction with its customers (and with folks just off the street) than anybody around here seems to have...

The decision to make the tablet was made long before and the work on it was well underway by the time it was officially announced.

I dunno about that. It feels to me more like a campaign that was slapped together at the last minute. They needed a new way to advertise Jolla, they saw the sales effort from Intel, found a low-cost retina-display tablet on offer from China, and went for it... In fact, that "Day Zero: Bootstrapping" blog only came out on December 17th, a month after the campaign had started, and they really hadn't progressed all that far at that point.

The whole IGG campaign was nothing but a PR stunt (that eventually backfired, but that is irrelevant).

No argument from me on that one.