Jolla consults with supermarket chains about deals, which the shops own smartphones with Sailfish make and sell. In two months time, there are still no one hundred thousand copies of the smartphone with the new operating system sold.
Supermarkets would be a modified version of Sailfish can create and do more than just a downloadable app develop. Then they would find the smartphone in their own shelves to sell. This is evident from an article in The New York Times about the young Finnish company. It comes to chains in ‘western markets’.
It is known that the Finnish company with providers in conversation about the release of phones. Providers an operating system enhancement is a known way to persuade them to a particular platform. KPN had a few weeks ago to Tweakers know that there is no deal with Jolla, although the Finnish company and the Dutch provider in negotiation. “We will follow this development with interest, but at this moment it is too early to have more to say about it.”
Jolla released at the end of november, its first smartphone with Sailfish and this was in december with the Finnish carrier DNA sold better than the iPhone 5s. The article, however, mentions that in two months still no one hundred thousand copies have been sold. Jolla should focus not only on providers, and supermarkets in the western markets focus on China.
Sailfish is derived from Maemo, mobile, Linux-based operating system from Nokia. Many of the employees of Jolla are also former employees of Nokia who worked on Maemo, to its successor MeeGo and Meltemi, a version for cheaper devices.
