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gerbick	2016-01-20 , 17:45
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Originally Posted by ZogG

There was discussion how hard it's to make update to support OS.

I'm quite sure you already knew that. But again... what are you questioning?

And that a lot of work was done.

Glad you acknowledge this. The question still stands...

So I'm trying to understand what exactly was done for tablet and why it cost so much.

200 or so employees, most of them engineers, working on the OS. Working with potential partners, ODM's... trips and consulting as well as revisions and research into future iterations of hardware.

Shipping, sales, consumer support and marketing. It all adds up. As a business owner, I've seen budgets of 2.5 million come and go in under a year and I had less than 30 employees.

So another question what would Jolla do regarding Os update if they would not get those money for tablet?

This is a good question.