Or just create a dedicated mail address only for use on the Xperia X phone?

The more times goes by the release of Sailfish X seems more and more troublesome.

It sounds like Sony can't decide if they really want you to flash your phone. You need initial firmware in order to utilize proprietary features and if you dare to unlock your bootloader a warning will get displayed every time your phone boots eventrough Sailfish X is shared collaboration between Jolla and Sony which might mean Sony don't view SailfishOS as malware.


Jolla has co-engineered other devices born with SailfishOS and burned their hands a couple of times (eg. with Turning Phone) but none has taken so long time to finish software wise as the Xperia X.

I'm really worried about the long delay. On one hand we could hope that Jolla is making this big effort to support arm64 out of the box in the future and on the other hand I worry that Jolla really struggles badly to survive and goes an long to way to please potentials partners (without proper signed contracts) which might blow them off once again.

This delay does harm the public image of Jolla big time and many potential partners might have their interest in SailfishOS by the time Sailfish X gets released to the public as a stable platform.

A lot of other phones on market does support flashing without the need to utilize security flaws in order to backup initial features and to be able to restore warranty.

If Jolla would have known what they know about the Open Device Program today I think they've gone with another collaborator.

At this time I consider SailfishOS to be on life support. It's really slow on new features and feature plans for the platform, but I really hope they survive and the OS comes up to speed with new features at a regular basis before the Purism Librem 5 sees the light.

Jolla knew about GPLv3 in advance of the design of platform. A license Google has avoided by choosing BSD userland tools instead of the GNU counterparts and build the platform upon a homegrown Java WM instead on relaying tools used by most Linux dists.

If Jolla wants to keep developing SailfishOS as a distribution which shares many libraries and software tools with a desktop based Linux distribution they need to accept GPLv3 as they can't go on with old versions of gnu tools such as the gcc compiler or qt 5.6 forever nor can they maintain a fork of these tools for years to come.

I don't want Jolla to be the new Nokia.