Always love news like this buried in a blog post at the 11th hour:

"James Noori on September 27, 2017 at 3:07 pm
Your concerns are understood, but there is more to it than just payment issues (which we thought at first that it only was that) but at least for the first release we won’t have the availability for USA and Canada market. No promises for later releases either but we will definitely work on the issues."

As a US based enthusiast waiting from the beginning of Jolla, this is a gut punch. I'm resigned that i may never own a fully featured Sailfish device, fine.

Can't wait to see what last second limitations are imposed on Chen's devices. I can't imagine whatever is hosing this for the US on the Xperia wouldn't do the same for his stuff. Please let it be directly related to Jolla's payment system (and if so WTF) and not some general licensing or export nonsense.