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Originally Posted by Dave999 View Post
Maybe Coderus could explain if it’s used or not because I haven’t seen any news about the last 5 years. I got almost all jolla fanboys after me when I thought it was a bad idea to let Putin bail out the company. But if Apple and Plenty of android’s will withdraw maybe jolla could get some small sail as long as they have hardware available.
Kudos for your foresight - although even today I wouldn't say a Russian Telecom company - even if it's partially state-owned - "is Putin".
Apart from that all your questions are answered in the article. Asking them the way you do, I'm sure you didn't read it:

Originally Posted by Dave999
Obviously jolla has been available a long time and don’t know how many users they have and if they even sell any devices or only support some of the old Sonys. And regarding the Russian investment it still not clear to me if anyone actually use this in Russia or if it’s actually just the government’s plan.
Jolla knows how many registered users it has, and judging from OS downloads on their sirte they also have a good idea how many unregistered users there are.
Jolla never fully relied on the smartphone OS market, they have always had a second leg to stand on:

Originally Posted by Techcrunch
last summer Jolla announced it had finally hit profitability (in 2020). And, according to Pienimäki, it was growing significant revenue last year outside the Russian market.
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“We have actually ramped down business and exports to Russia already in 2021,” CEO and co-founder Sami Pienimäki told TechCrunch. “Thus, the potential tech sanctions would not impact Jolla’s business anymore. In parallel, Jolla is growing in particular rapidly in the automotive sector, and it formed already significant part of our 2021 revenues.”
And lastly:

Originally Posted by Dave999
I don’t see how they can find a buyer.
Originally Posted by Techcrunch
hinting that it’s hoping to find a buyer for the Rostelecom stake, potentially from the automotive sector, or perhaps by taking support from the Finnish government (if offered).
Yes, just hinting so far. I'm not worried that they'll find a way.

Anything more, I'd basically be quoting the whole article. Read it, it's not long.
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