Go! Jolla go! ... & other business strategy suggestion [not relevant]
asked 2016-05-04 18:31:05 +0200
Congratulation for your new financing,
that's great. That will be really needed. :-)
Is it conceivable that Jolla would propose some further services on Jolla(partner)/own server?
to bound to sfos devices like mail calendars and don't know what else for a great augmented experience...
Same as google or others do, but trusted or without ads, against a small contribution. That could pump the incoming cash from jolla a little bit more...
With it is not meant a whole hardware solution, but Server-side Software solutions to sell, or financed through maintenance contracts.
One case would be in partnership with a server-renting firm, where jolla server-side Software are placed on their servers.
Other case would be, we as user, we may install these Software by our own on a VPS server of our choice.
And every time we need help or support from jolla, it will be in form of contribution as return...
I think today, softwares may be obsolete if the background services don't work.
Applications would be a gate to the service, and may be free (should be free), but the service not really.
that would bring more flexibility on what type of service would provided.
And user may still use his own one
That would be a complement for having a more robust self financing strategy.
Partner-space system is nice and quite interesting, but long to bring in place.
And i ask me how well could we concentrate ourself on an os development, with short incoming and unstable financing...
Need more developers, and working on stable eco system.
An os without ecosystem is expose to a slow death...
Cheers
PS: i think there are many sfos sailors who still navigate with google services in background.
Then proposing same services, or server-side-tools or comparable would be fine for some of them...
Well, I don't understand the business strategy "Go! Jolla go!".
About the other "business strategy": I don't think there is a business case for Jolla to become a service provider for email. They should focus on SFOS development.
Stefanix ( 2016-05-04 21:03:50 +0200 )editI bought my jolla because I believe in decentralization. Instead of having all my sensitive data at a single provider, I rather have a OS vendor that implements standards (such as CalDAV), so I can choose my own provider (or be my own provider).
sigma_ ( 2016-05-04 21:06:25 +0200 )edit@sigma_ yes indeed, that's why i used "propose". that would be an alternative to google. it is not thoiught just for your need. if you're not interested, then it is ok. don't use it. What i meant with it is to have the possibility to increase the functionalities with own solutions, but not as default. Do you understand what i mean?
cemoi71 ( 2016-05-04 23:25:07 +0200 )edit@Stefanix :-D is not a business strategy but a short greeting/reaction about their shortly announced financing, which is a signal revival on activities.
cemoi71 ( 2016-05-04 23:36:37 +0200 )editAnd about business activity, don't forget that their motivation is to present a system which care of privacy. What is a system as os which bound itself on a plateform who don't care of it like google? for it is obsolete. if jolla want guaranty the privacy, it should do it from A to Z. But not ignore google anyway.
Don't forget that they need cash. The partner space is a nice business strategy, but bring nothing as long as it is not installed.
Mails, cloud services, calendar, contact. don't which parts of services could be given. there is enough other professional solution, that could propose such kind of firm. And not especially on their servers
i dont think jolla should host these services themselves but i definately think they should cooperate with other trustworthy and reputable service providers like "posteo". the cooperation should be so that a flawless setup of your posteo account in garanteed. any changes are communicated beforehand so that theres never a problem. of course not only posteo - im sure there are a couple more "good" companies surrounding the CCC or the EFF and so on...
misc11 ( 2016-05-05 00:21:35 +0200 )edit