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Originally Posted by zenecho View Post
yes, have you read any of this thread?

Jolla has effectively been paid for 12000 tablets. they have shipped 250-300. They are currently unable to ship the rest. They cant sell new tablets, if they cant even meet their previous paid for orders.
That's due to the fact they are out of money, which is due to the fact the main investor pulled out.

How does that imply a product which has sold x cannot sell for another x ammount?

Originally Posted by NokiaFanatic View Post
Firstly, no one will buy anymore tablets until the existing backlog is cleared. Money will be required for that.

Secondly, if Jolla wanted to make another tablet, they would have to update the design/specs, add new OS features, order the physical hardware, research, test, etc. All this would require further money. Given that Jolla lost money on the Tablet 1 on sales of 20k tablets. To try and not lose money on this venture, they'd probably need to be selling more than 100k at least to get the benefit of economies of scale.

It's clear from the announcement a few months back that HW development is crippling Jolla. That is why they put a spike through it when they killed it (they said they were spinning it off, but in reality it's a total nonstarter).

Why another tablet? What's the point? Assuming they would get another investor and get there, they would probably ship the remaning tablets and try to sell more (as they did with the phone).
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