Now when we have the name and the OS we just need a HW company stupid enough to help jolla and ship 10000 tablets for free and in return they can use sailfish for free for 3 years in all devices.
Would the changelog not be the first place you've looked for this information?
2.0 Saimaa changelog... and there's other versions including the latest version 2.0.1.x.
It was a major OS release with many tweaks visible as well as under the hood. Taking a year is not outside the realm of things.
I'll keep it simple. Do I think it was worth 2.5 million dollars? No. But a scalable OS that remedied and perhaps backfilled all of the other issues that 1.0 invariably had... it might prove to be a worthy investment if licensing takes off and manufacturers decide whatever hardware they want to do/use and can do so.
But that matters none to us; we want our tablets we paid for, right? Not the investment into making their OS scalable. The argument that it should have been as such from day one is moot. It's there now. But at the expense of the user backed tablets.
So back to you. What are you asking exactly? Why did it take a year to produce a major update to Sailfish or are you asking why it cost 2.5 million and the tablets?
Or am I misreading what you're inquiring... which is a very possible outcome. And since my words have been taken wrongly in the past; do understand that I'm genuinely curious and wonder what you're inquiring. Thanks in advance.
There was discussion how hard it's to make update to support OS. And that a lot of work was done. So I'm trying to understand what exactly was done for tablet and why it cost so much. I see changelog but i do not see a lot of tablet specific updates, I just see update with most changes not related to tablet. So another question what would Jolla do regarding Os update if they would not get those money for tablet?
There was discussion how hard it's to make update to support OS.
I'm quite sure you already knew that. But again... what are you questioning?
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And that a lot of work was done.
Glad you acknowledge this. The question still stands...
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So I'm trying to understand what exactly was done for tablet and why it cost so much.
200 or so employees, most of them engineers, working on the OS. Working with potential partners, ODM's... trips and consulting as well as revisions and research into future iterations of hardware.
Shipping, sales, consumer support and marketing. It all adds up. As a business owner, I've seen budgets of 2.5 million come and go in under a year and I had less than 30 employees.
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So another question what would Jolla do regarding Os update if they would not get those money for tablet?
