Thread: Nokia Should Not Acquire Jolla
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JulmaHerra is offline JulmaHerra
2014-11-24 , 12:47
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Originally Posted by NokiaFanatic View Post
People need to forget about Nokia and Jolla joining forces. First of all, other than a brand, Nokia have nothing that Jolla need.
Ahem.... how about pile of cash, HERE maps, boatload of patents...

There is much that could contribute to Jolla and Sailfish. Otherwise, such merger doesn't really make sense. Nokia is not willing to build another device manufacturing operation anymore and if they want to use Sailfish for something, they can do it without acquisition.

The second thing that makes collaboration difficult is the fact that Nokia and Jolla have now become competitors. Both are selling a very similarly specced tablet at around the same time at the same price point.
Not directly. Jolla designs and creates devices. Nokia just licenses it's brand and lets the other manufacturers compete while collecting some profit without operational risk. For Nokia it doesn't really matter even if some manufacturer wanted to create Nokia branded device using Sailfish OS.

I think a more likely scenario over the next year would be for Jolla to collaborate with the likes of Meizu, Xiaomi or one of the Indian mobile companies to have them make a device that runs Sailfish.
Most likely yes. In addition to perhaps some smaller players who simply need a device without NSA-enabled OS.
 

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