Well, Mer was mostly product of a person who was Jolla's employee. It was not completely a separate entity and not even remotely as well funded than Android has been for years. Even if Mer inherited some parts from MeeGo (which by the time of deep sixing was not ready), it constitues only portion of what is needed to build an actual device. In comparison, you can take Android, use development tools already there and have complete ecosystem in place via Google which leads easily to wide adoption rates as people really don't have to change anything on adoption. Jolla had to take Mer and Nemo, then create SDK, then do one HW adaptation which went to trash bin when STEriccson pulled the plug from NovaThor, then they coded libhybris, switched to Qt5 and Wayland, do another HW adaptation and put together an infrastucture to support all of it with severely limited funding. So in that regard there is really no comparison between those two.

True. Because Cyanogen is in position where it's easier to succeed. For the reasons I mentioned. Not many are ready to fund Sailfish because if it doesn't fly, they will lose everything and risk for it is way bigger than with Cyanogen/Android. Hopefully they are still able to close the financing round so I don't have to evacuate to Apple-world. At least yet...