Tell me about it! I myself am trying to write a thesis which has to be finished in a couple weeks. Personally, I try to avoid writing forum posts like a paper but I respect your approach.

Rereading it now, you did indeed answer it quite well. It wasn't entirely clear to me first, I confess to knowing very little about Intex other than seeing it mentioned a few times here on TMO. I wrongly assumed that Jolla might be able to provide a warranty through Intex. It's a shame that this isn't the case.

It's good question. Other companies have offered devices to developers before, arguably they didn't choose them very well. I am a little surprised that they are including Alien Dalvik with this device as without it they probably would have attracted less fanboys, thus it might have ended up in the hands of more developers. Not to mention that it's likely that they had to pay a licence fee to Myriad which probably increased the programme fee.