Jolla already was the attempt at alternative history.

I found that it looked as if Jolla was being backed by investors that were going to turn back time, well aware of the fact that the burning platform was liquid BS spewed by a Nokia PR machine hijacked by MS.

And they knew very well that the N9 had in fact raised the interest of more than a few international press reviewers.
At the time press reviewers were already getting tired of the duopoly and lack of creativity and innovation in the mobile market.

To pretend Like N9 never even left the prototype factory and that Jolla never existed is like saying that those very mobile industry people that were fired, disgusted or resigned from previous high profile mobile industry jobs, did not already come together to ultimately fail in realizing a successful product and answer to the slacking mobile industry ...after having having held this a very similar brainstorming session in 200x - 2012.

The alternative history should not ignore Jolla's existence but depart some time before Jolla' tablet's announcement and decision to adapt the interface to tablets and call it 2.0.

Jolla has a basic but cheap Chinese demo phone running Sailfish to sell to interested partners and demonstrate the OS' development to the crowd of enthusiast backers-users that agree to serve as live beta testers.

The early product had been severely hyped by Marc and his crew but it is also clear that gradually and steadily missing features are being added to the Sailfis OS and that compatibility with Android applications is improving.