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JulmaHerra	2015-11-29 , 20:50
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Originally Posted by bluefoot

Firstly, they need to get rid of their entire senior management and executive team; all of them, without exception - even if some are competent - to demonstrate a major change to any potential investors.

And who would be there to demonstrate anything for potential investors? This is no typical publicly traded company where chairs can be rotated on presumption that it would pump up stock prices for a while. Jolla needs continuity, which is in part peril because they have lost so many "founding fathers" and I doubt replacing the management with outsides not familiar with Sailfish OS or it's history would do any good as it would effectively mess up just about everything in the company for long time and it would definitely be the end of everything.

Secondly they need to abandon Sailfish as a distinct OS. They've proved wholly incapable of maintaining and upgrading it at any remotely reasonable cadence. They should do as the KDE team have (and no doubt others will in future) and use Ubuntu Touch as a basis for their work. It'd have way better performance and features, less work for them, and it'd be able to tap into a platform and community which OEMs have already shown serious interest in. They could focus on the UX and functionality, applications and courting hardware makers then. This idea has to have been floated by some of the developers (though I'd guess no-one in management) already.

Effectively they should scrap the whole OS and rewrite UI for platform they cannot control in any way? Or even forking Ubuntu or something else? Better performance? Compared to what? Features? How so? Community? We have already seen how poisonous it gets on slightest annoyance. Would they be able to sell just UI? And how do you think features would be integrated to this completely different kind of UI/UX when apps are programmed to original Ubuntu touch and it's UI/UX?

Trying to change patform on this stage would be even more desperate than Nokia changing to Windows Phone... it just won't work.

They absolutely will not survive by trying to go on as they have.

Remains to be seen. However, problems are because of prolonged negotiations with investors and this problem does not go away by simply changing management, platform or with any other magic trick. It's the curse of company that has yet to establish the revenue streams.