This. Jolla is definitely not in a position to take risks at the moment, but is there a way we can assess the risks after you selected the SoC and all hardware that could compromise porting Sailfish? If the way you select the final hardware takes into account the ease of porting Sailfish, then maybe there wouldn't be as much work as there is for Xperia X for instance, and maybe the OS could just be almost natively supported from the beginning?

I know nothing about that, just wondering if the amount of work can be dramatically reduced by the choice of hardware. If that's the case, then maybe Jolla wouldn't consider it a risk, but a major opportunity to have a unique device with absolutely no competition released with their OS. It does not mean that licensing cost would be reduced (could be estimated and included in the final cost anyway), but feasibility of the port would. The device would still be kind of niche, but this is the way Jolla has been working until now (except for the Xperia X project, but since Xperia X are now discontinued, the project will likely get lower interest from the crowd than initially planned).

If Jolla can have a brand (owned by a long-term TMO insider, they might be sensitive to that as well, who knows) shipping with their OS as default for a small amount of work on their side and still get money from the licensing, and if this device is unique in other ways than just the OS, this may be something big even for them. Heck they even were thrilled about the Turing partnership, and you already showed how to be more realistic than Turing when designing a device.