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2013-12-01
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@ Hanoi
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#2821
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2013-12-02
, 01:14
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#2822
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2013-12-02
, 04:46
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@ Auckland NZ
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#2823
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http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/02/mee...kong-alliance/
so what happened?
Jolla apparently has enough funding to sustain that effort too - with an alliance of industry backers committing to buoy up Sailfish to the tune of €200 million. Back in February Jolla itself also took in a €1 million investment from a Hong Kong based telecoms & mining firm, China Fortune, in exchange for 6.25% of the company. Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and Baidu have also been floated as future potential partners for Jolla - albeit that might just be wishful thinking at this point.
Jolla co-founder Sami Pienimäki said the company's already spent about €20 million getting to the starting point of being able to release its first handset, running the Sailfish OS. How much more it may need to nurture and build out an ecosystem to really get Sailfish moving remains to be seen.
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2013-12-02
, 07:01
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#2824
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it might take off and if they capitalize on their deal with (I forgot the name, can't be arsed to locate it now) they'll make it easily.
Nothing has changed:
"Jolla apparently has enough funding to sustain that effort too - with an alliance of industry backers committing to buoy up Sailfish to the tune of €200 million."
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/30/jolla-first-phone/
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2013-12-02
, 07:34
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@ Berlin
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2013-12-02
, 09:09
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#2826
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D.phone, but there's that article posted a while back which revealed that the supposed major deal they had there, + the entire Sailfish Alliance thing, was a complete furfy.*
Here's to hoping that they're now well on the way to building something similar to their original (inflated) claims.
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2013-12-02
, 09:46
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#2828
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2013-12-02
, 17:29
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@ Czech Republic
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#2829
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"pretty soon", funniest line, jolla, pipo party, sailfish, tmo red |
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