Why does Jolla not sell SailfishX for Fairphone2? [not relevant]

The difference ia that with Sony phones Jolla does all the heavy work by them selves (with the support of the open device program). With Fairphone the Fairphone company would/could assist and work on the h/w adaptation together with Jolla, perhaps making Jolla's required work minimal. We would still be required to buy a Sailfish license for our Fairphones.

@Mohjive yeah Fairphone aren't experts in porting sailfish, and Jolla are, the end result is Jolla tends to do all the heavy work anyway.

The main argument was around whether or not Fairphone should pay Jolla for the work + licensing costs

@potski the hardware components are all the same, except for 2 different camera modules. or what do you mean?

Currently this is true but I understand that in future they hope to have additional options. Every new component would require attention from Jolla. I would love to see Sailfish on this device but we shall see.

@potski

you still hope for new hardware 2,5 years later?

im not super informed about the fairphone project, but from what ive heard, there wont be any more upgrades for the fairphone 2. some speculate about a fairphone 3 rather than any upgrades...

but anyway, for now this should be a problem...

Both camera modules are supported by mals port. I did not belive that Fairphone will change a lot or build newer (incompatible) modules. The must support them by there own Android versions they deliver and i think they will think twice about newer modules. Only if they did not get old components for the available parts they must change the modules.