What is important to Jolla. Everyone matters. [answered]

I would be delighted if you also share your views, and would welcome any questions <3

I just want say thank you to all you sailors on this boat! You're doing a great job so far.

Keep up the good work and make jolla 2 (the phone) even greater. And please don't fuck it up. :P Going back to another phone OS will feel like going to the past.

As for the haters, naggers and all the energy sucking people around turkish people have a saying: It ürür, kervan yürür.

Keep it on.

Hey Sailors! Please WIRE THE FM CHIP for the next model.

You're giving us the feeling to be part of this awesome movement, that's the passion that is so special about this community <3

Jolla guys are the humblest people I know. Respect and Love for all of you <3

Maybe would have been better to keep the "beta" tag for some time. A lot of people here are ok with this and are ready to report bugs and make reports. But people who just want their phone to work would say that the os and phone are shit and wouldn't try it even in the future. Better have such people get the phone in some months.

There was and is no tech-company that does a better Job in not raising expectations too high to fullfill them. Honesty, healthy growth and humbleness in front of an ultra complex task is what i expect from you, not more, not less. And you/we are doing great so far!

Never been disappointed so far ! And things keep improving in all directions (comms, openness, transparency and OS). We tease you, we push you, we are sometimes rude and impatient but we love you :)

I think the journey so far has been really nice. There are lots of things about Sailfish, big and small, that are not there yet, but they're on their way, and I have patience and trust. Keep on sailing!

I'm proud to sail in this sea

Hi there Marc & Co,

Actually when I first became aware fo Jolla I wanted to support c.q. invest in the company because I strongly believed in the goals (not to mention the road to get there). As a private individual the best opportunity to do so was to be one of the "First One".

Although my expectations probably were (much) too high I must say that I am more than satisfied with the result. I love the community and openness aspects and the way it all is developing. Being a busy professional myself I have limited means/time of giving back through "Together" yet I still try...

Sure there is also criticism but given the circumstances and history I can understand the difficulties facing Jolla. So I choose continue my support and try to be constructive. For Jolla I think it is very important to keep looking around to see what is happening in the mobile world. The environment and boundary conditions are changing at a breakneck speed. So be alert.

It seems Jolla is indeed quite responsive and transparent towards their users. Keep this up and maybe also fine tune your "expectation management" (it is improving). You have I think an on average very sympathetic user(s) and supporting community willing to be more than just that. Good vibes and love may not be enough though,.. alhough given everything else it may make the difference.

So,...

rock on!

Thanks everyone, you and all of the wonderful community are why we are here!

Oh wait! "A year ago, we lost our chipset provider, killing the product we had almost ready for market." This was all news to me....so you lost how many months of work with this?

@t0mps0 AFAIK they lost the chipset supplier in March 2013. And TBH i think that was a "blessing" in a way. (Someone correct me if i am wrong) We wouldn't have ended with such an up to date stack (ie wayland etc)

Hi sailors! Thank you each and everyone for making this phone and sailfish os. With the latest update 'Saapunki' phone feels fkuid and classy. With modern HWin 'Jolla-2015'-model, you have excellent chance to grow as big as you wish. Sailfish is really making it possible. Keep up the good work, and you will have our continous support.

Thank you, Jolla ! Thank you, Marc !

You should use our powerful community much more. Even some of us are not developers, we can test and provide feedback. Many of Jolla users are in IT and/or Linux lovers. Use us.

We believe you and believe in you! Please keep concentrating on the product, and the revenue will come. Please keep giving us the feeling that you respect us more than money, and we will give back. Rather stay small than diverge from your passionate community, and the community will grow. Please keep listening to us, and we will speak nicely to you and about you. I wish I could give you all a beer.

its a honnor to sail i'm proud of it ... just keep on ...

i was a nokia n900 user and found now a great phone with a lot off capabilities

for now, great job, last update amazing

I have great faith in the future of Jolla, your values, and how you work. You don't need to be big to be great, this is a fact definitely proven by you. If you continue the success story of Jolla, that means Jolla will grow and become bigger. That I see as a positive development too, to a certain degree. But after any company reaches a certain size, my trust in it will gradually diminish. Market leaders will always start to strive for monopoly, always with partly questionable methods. Bigger companies will become mostly about numbers and marketing and hardly about their products and their customers anymore. Combined with expectations, that is my biggest worry about the future of Jolla (still a few years from now though), that they will become another Google/Apple/Nokia etc. To me as a consumer, choice is the key, and not being forced to buy into an ecosystem where everything I use is controlled by a single large entity. Jolla, I love you. Cocreate! Please never become a sell-out!

you do a fantastic job. The improvements over the last few updates are astonishing. To me the Jolla phone is a great tool, intuitive and also fun to use. After 5 months with Jolla, iOS and Android feel awkward and unintuitive. Jolla is a real alternative. Keep up the good work.

I put the Jolla sticker on the back of my phone so it'll be more easily recognized as being NOT another android. I explain to friends and anyone who will listen why there is a benefit simply to the fact that my phone is neither powered by A nor by G and how I am one of the lucky few who can use a smartphone while remaining a free person. The next will be simple demonstrations of how my device is also more powerful than what everyone is used to nowadways. :-D

Couldn't be said better!

Thanks a lot for excellent work, ideas and enthusiasm.

Well said, Marc. Quite honest and sincere story... heart touching, too.

I hope that Jolla sailors and Jolla fans would forgive me for saying that in some aspects Jolla is not your "all-around-daily-phone" yet, BUT it is getting there, increasing the speed month by month. I absolutely love frequent Sailfish SW updates!!! First of all, it gives you this good feeling "They are working on improving it every day! They didn't just get my money to abandon me after the sale took place!". Second, it brings a lot new features and improvements regularly and frequently. Third, being an ex-Maemo guy, I really know HOW hard is that to make monthly SW updates to your product. Very well done, Jolla. I also love the openness of Jolla: both Sailfish SW openness and Jolla community openness. This is something what Nokia had pioneered when it was making N770, N800, N810, N900 - with some pitfalls, yes, but at leastthey started to work together with the community. Now Jolla does it better, than Nokia did back then.

Keep up the good work! I really hope to see more Sailfish devices (not necessarily phones) in the future, produced by Jolla and others. And I am very proud to know many Jolla sailors as my ex-colleagues and some as my personal friends, too.

Good luck and may the Force be with you :-)

I am a bit overwhelmed everyone, I didn't expect so much love and support so quickly. Thank you on behalf of all of the dear sailors and community. We are rowing hard for you!

Keep up the good work marc!

It really is an amazing story, and I sincerely hope you will be able to keep your nose above the waterline to make it really big. It is not easy, because competition is equipped with huge resources and in the end for most users it only matters what they can do with their device.

But in this agile world I suppose you can be expected to provide three statuses for requested features:

• planned for next update

• planned for later release

• not planned in foreseeable future = "Rejected"

That would be a great start to reduce ambiguity and frustration caused by "we are thinking about it" type of answers. Ultimately you would publish backlog of all teams and that would make it clearer for everyone how soon something can be expected. And then everything can be replanned, like always ;-)

Brilliant writing!

I do think that behind marketing and stuff, people at Jolla are really passionate about what they're doing and this shines through and reaches the community.

The moment when I realized that was in the last meetup happened in Rome. 10 minutes before the meeting started, while we were chatting with Stefano, Nicolò (my community fellow) raised an issue he had with his Jolla. The reaction of Stefano was so simply and the same time delightful: he immediately picked up the device, opened the terminal and started to play with the terminal looking for a solution. Like he had no meeting in the following hours, like it was the first time he saw a Jolla.

No Google, no silly The Verge reviews - having these guys so glad to work on this product is everything we need. Keep sailing.

Hello Marc, from the first day I heard about the birth of Jolla, as admin of an Italian Maemo Community, I have chosen to support you as much as possible, so I created the Jolla Community Italy. The path you have undertaken is not easy, and sometimes I wonder what happened to the projects of the "Real" Other Halves. But, thinking about your past in Nokia, I say that today no one can tell you, after two and a half years 'guys, thanks for everything, but we decided to change our business plan!' because ... today is up to you, your business plan! :) I'm sure this is just the beginning.