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2015-12-02
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#2402
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When's the next #mer-meeting? Tomorrow? That was a good source of news last time.
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2015-12-02
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Originally Posted by billranton
Anyone from jolla at these meetings nowdays? Antti should join an explain why he didnt used the money to finish the tablet or why not ask for more money to finalize the project and fix this scam.
When's the next #mer-meeting? Tomorrow? That was a good source of news last time.
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Do something for the climate today! Anything!
I don't trust poeple without a Nokia n900...
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2015-12-02
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Originally Posted by billranton
Yes, the next community meeting should be again tomorrow (December 3) at 14:30 UTC.
When's the next #mer-meeting? Tomorrow? That was a good source of news last time.
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modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
Mieru: a flexible manga and comic book reader
Universal Components - a solution for native looking yet component set independent QML appliactions (QtQuick Controls 2 & Silica supported as backends)
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2015-12-02
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I wonder how things would have been different if the Jolla phone had the capability to get 3G or 4G in the US. As I understand it, a significant fraction of the tablets were sold to folks in the US (is that true?). Perhaps greater sales of Jolla phone to US sailors could have helped keep Jolla afloat longer...
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2015-12-02
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Originally Posted by mscion
I suspect the cost (in terms of both money and time) of getting the cellular components of the phone FCC and PTCRB certified (plus any additional individual carrier requirements) in the US would have outweighed any financial benefit. I also suspect that getting such certification would have required modification to the phone design.
I wonder how things would have been different if the Jolla phone had the capability to get 3G or 4G in the US. As I understand it, a significant fraction of the tablets were sold to folks in the US (is that true?). Perhaps greater sales of Jolla phone to US sailors could have helped keep Jolla afloat longer...
You may wonder why the tablet has no cellular functionality. I'd suggest it is exactly so no such certification is required, thus making it much easier to sell in the US.
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2015-12-02
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Originally Posted by strongm
Could Jolla have released an unlocked version without going through FCC or specific carrier? I would then have purchased it on line from some international distributor..
I suspect the cost (in terms of both money and time) of getting the cellular components of the phone FCC and PTCRB certified (plus any additional individual carrier requirements) in the US would have outweighed any financial benefit. I also suspect that getting such certification would have required modification to the phone design.
You may wonder why the tablet has no cellular functionality. I'd suggest it is exactly so no such certification is required, thus making it much easier to sell in the US.
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2015-12-02
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Originally Posted by mscion
Not that much different at all. Launching any device in the US is a tricky endeavor and it has to have the key things that folks want - social media, ease of use, plenty of apps (most go unused after the first week) and a level of popularity that means they can ask their peers questions to resolve their grievances.
I wonder how things would have been different if the Jolla phone had the capability to get 3G or 4G in the US. As I understand it, a significant fraction of the tablets were sold to folks in the US (is that true?). Perhaps greater sales of Jolla phone to US sailors could have helped keep Jolla afloat longer...
I'd love to say that my home market would have made a dent in what's going on with Jolla; but I truly doubt it. The US is a fickle area that only supports currently iOS or Android.
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2015-12-02
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Originally Posted by gerbick
I think you make a generally valid point about marketing this device in the US. However, I was thinking, not of the general US public, but just folks like myself that had used the N900 and/or N9 and would have liked to use a related OS. Whether that would be enough people to keep Jolla afloat is not clear. Come to think of it, N9 was not sold by any carrier in US but it at least got 3G. Indeed, about 5 or 6 of us N9 fans had a meet up years ago in Rockville MD. It was really fun. Alas, halcyon days bygone...
Not that much different at all. Launching any device in the US is a tricky endeavor and it has to have the key things that folks want - social media, ease of use, plenty of apps (most go unused after the first week) and a level of popularity that means they can ask their peers questions to resolve their grievances.
I'd love to say that my home market would have made a dent in what's going on with Jolla; but I truly doubt it. The US is a fickle area that only supports currently iOS or Android.
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2015-12-02
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Wasn't the issue patents?
Nokia had a huge reciprocal patent portfolio to bat off trolls in the USA. Jolla doesn't so it might just be safer not to play at all.
Nokia had a huge reciprocal patent portfolio to bat off trolls in the USA. Jolla doesn't so it might just be safer not to play at all.
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