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{{About|the company|the operating system by Jolla|Sailfish OS|other uses}}
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|name             = Jolla Oy
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(contracted; show full)27;'Bridge'' program was established to select, support and establish new start-up companies led by former Nokia employees to help them earn a living and try to mitigate some of the bad PR Nokia was suffering.<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Many+former+Nokia+employees+start+businesses+of+their+own/1329104331230 | title = Many former Nokia employees start businesses of their own | newspaper = Helsingin Sanomat}}</ref> As Jolla's OS is based on the Mee
gGo API it was natural to use the core OS from the Mer project to develop their own system.

Within the Bridge program, Nokia and Jolla's leaders have had open discussion about the Jolla's plans, and CEO Jussi Hurmola does not expect intellectual property clashes with Nokia.<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.muktware.com/3928/meego-revived-interview-jolla-ceo | title = MeeGo Revived: Interview With Jolla CEO | newspaper = Muktware | date = 2012-07-16}}</ref> However, Nokia has not gifted Jolla any patents or other [[intellectual property]] for development of Jolla's smartphone; as a result, Jolla does not hold such rights. Jolla has no plans to support the  [[Nokia N9]] in the course of its core activities as this phone is a Nokia - not a Jolla - product.

== Corporate affairs ==

=== Strategy ===
On 6 July 2012, Jolla declared that with international private investors and partners, it is to  design, develop and sell new [[smartphone]]s based on a [[Linux]] system and a new user interface developed by Jolla. The Sailfish OS will be "based on [[MeeGo]] operating system, with the MerP project core",<ref>{{citation | url = https://twitter.com/JollaMobile/status/233061880363634688 | place = [[Twiter]] | title = Twiter | publisher = JollaMobile}}</ref> so containing the OS kernel core of [[Mer (operating system)|Mer]] (which is a MeeGo fork and a core OS distroibution aimed at vendors like Jolla), with a [[Qt (framework)|Qt]], [[QML]] and [[HTML5]]. The Jolla team consists of a substantial number of ex-Nokia core engineers and directors, and it is aggressively hiring top [[MeeGo]] talent to contribute to the new smartphone development and production.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.talouselama.fi/nokialandia/nokia+jollan+meegopuhelin+tervetullut+me+keskitymme+lumiaan/a2136796|title=Nokia: Jollan Meego-puhelin tervetullut |accessdate=July 9, 2012 |year=2012 |publisher=Elina Lappalainen | location = Finland | language = Finnish}}</ref><ref>{{citation | url = http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1575054 | place = [[Finland|FI]] | title = Areena | publisher = Yle}}</ref>

Jussi Hurmola said the following regarding the differentiation of Jolla from others in the mobile market: "What sets Jolla’s phone apart from other makers is our user experience. And that is done by us. -- Jolla aims to create something fresh compared to [[iOS]] and [[Android (operating system)|Android]]. We want to bring in the parts of MeegGo that were liked: native multitasking, application integration and data integration. I am using N9 myself for all my mobile work tasks and I enjoy the fact that all applications are always open. -- We want to get rid of the user flow where users are starting and shutting down applications. Also the user interface must be customizable."<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.ossimantylahti.com/2012/07/interview-of-jussi-hurmola-jolla-mobiles-managing-director/ | title = Interview of Jussi Hurmola, Jolla Mobile’s managing director | author = Ossi Mäntylahti}}</ref>

It is clear that Jolla phones need third-party support, applications and an ecosystem. Hence Jolla will launch an on-line app store featuring MeeGo software to back up the release of its first smartphone later in 2012. Jussi Hurmola pointed out that a version of Angry Birds is already available for MeeGo devices.<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/364288/20120718/jolla-mobile-launch-app-store-angry-birds.htm | title = Jolla Mobile to Launch App Store for MeeGo Software | author = Matthew Chapman}}</ref> “Creating an ecosystem is about co-operating, it’s not about going alone. What we are (contracted; show full)gt;{{cite web|last=Constantinescu|first=Stefan|title=Jolla signs distribution deal with D.Phone, China’s largest phone retailer|url=http://www.intomobile.com/2012/07/15/jolla-signs-distribution-deal-dphone-chinas-largest-phone-retailer/|work=Intomobile.com|publisher=IntoMobile|accessdate=20 August 2012}}</ref> Previously China Telecom was an important member of the MeeGo project. It is not confirmed but quite probable that Jolla has shown Chinese partners, before anybody else, a secret prototype of a
  smartphone, what has consequently has allowed the parties to sign such the important contract mentioned above. 

When asked for a comment on ideas about Tizen, the company tweeted: "Tizen situation is hard to see from the open. We are continuing with open source ‪#meego‬ basis, and are open for collaboration."<ref>{{citation | title = @spulci Tizen situation is hard to see from the open. We are continuing with open source ‪#meego‬ basis, and are open for collaboration. | url = https://twitte(contracted; show full)

The first planned product is a "mass-market" smartphone aimed at general users. With added "developer mode" it can also be aimed at advanced tech users: "Jolla is going to release a developer edition of the device which gives full access to 
lLinux hackers and technology enthusiasts. Jolla will fully support the communities and be part of them, and wants them to be part of creating and developing our device."<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/364288/20120718/jolla-mobile-launch-app-store-angry-birds.htm | title = Jolla Mobile to Launch App Store for MeeGo Software | newspaper = International Business Times}}</ref>

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* Qt 4.7  [Qt47]
* Qt Mobility 1.0 [QtMob]
* OpenGL ES 2.0 [OGLES] <ref>{{cite web|title=MeeGo-Compliance-Spec-1.1.80.1|url=http://wiki.meego.com/images/MeeGo-Compliance-Spec-1.1.80.1.pdf|work=The Meego project|accessdate=1 Se
mptember 2012}}</ref>

However updated version, like Qt 5.0 are or will be used in Mer, eventually. 

Mer's primary customers are not end-users, but "vendors", which include device vendors, hardware adopters and community distributions. Mer provides a mobile device oriented architecture, structure, processes and tools to make life easy for these vendors. The core is based upon the work from the MeeGo project.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Mer project main site|url=http://merproject.org/|work=The Mer project|accessdate=4 August 2012}}</ref> The current Mer (name comes from "MeeGo Reconstructed", although at first it was based on [[Maemo]]) was created after the discussion about new directions for the MeeGo project, approaching it from the angle of reconstructing the project from bottom up in order to reignite the project and fix problems with project management, governance, lack of transparency, direction and flexibility<ref>{{cite web|title=The Mer project main site|url=http://merproject.org/|work=The Mer project|accessdate=4 August 2012}}</ref> by the community as a [[Fork (software development)|fork]] of the MeeGo project. The Mer project contains only libraries of core OS, but no user interface.

=== Ecosystem ===

==== Incubation period ====
Considering Jolla declarations about system, building MeeGo ecosystem and launching an on-line MeeGo software store to back up smartphone it is probable and expected that Jolla's smartphone will be using MeeGo compatible software, however it is not stated finally yet. 

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Both teams are working with KDE towards a common architecture, preventing further fragmentation of mobile Linux. This could eventually allow these three systems to share HTML5 apps. 

The idea of cooperation idea to have common APIs has born in a chat on KDE’s #active IRC channel, and it can have a huge influence on the future of all three projects. 

Zoltán Balogh, developer at Canonical, confirmed that the discussion about APIs was under
-way, and invited anyone interested in QML to participate. “Clearly a productive collaboration between communities and companies would be something revolutionary,” he wrote.

The proposed cooperation attempts to not only simplify UI development, but establish long-term links between Canonical, Jolla and KDE staff including "other aspects of the bigger puzzle such as common package formats and delivery strategies,” wrote Aaron Seigo from KDE on his blog. 

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As Jolla's Sailfish OS use the Mer core distribution then it can be used with various hardware, like ARM or Intel and many others. It is possible because the Mer core distr
oibution does not contain neither a [[Linux kernel|kernel]] nor [[User interface|UI]], but libraries above kernel and below UI layers. To make a working Linux distribution a specific [[Linux kernel|kernel]] compatible with a particular hardware and a [[User interface|UI]] (like Joolla UI in Sailfish) are to be added - this creates the distribution of Linux MeeGo Sailfish OS for particular hardware. Also this allows Sailfish OS with appropriate kernel to work on every hardware. Because of open source basis and rules it can be used by all interested in using of those solutions e.g. to adopt for a particular hardware or any special needs. 

(contracted; show full)as not given. So far Jolla is present in the Internet only via Twitter and LinkedIn sites.<ref>{{cite web|last=Martikainen|first=Toivo|title=Ex-nokialaisten Jolla osti nettiosoitteen jättisummalla|url=http://www.digitoday.fi/mobiili/2012/08/06/ex-nokialaisten-jolla-osti-nettiosoitteen-jattisummalla/201234885/66|work=Digitoday|publisher=Taloussanomat|accessdate=7 August 2012}}</ref>

On 2012-08-16 Jolla's MeeGo UI has been reported as ready to go. Jolla's CEO Jussi Hurmola stated in a 
Zdnet[[ZDNet]] interview. "(...)"Our UI is ready now, we haven't released it yet, we will save it for the product launch and the platform is getting up now so the project looks pretty nice. (...)"<ref>{{cite web|last=Tung|first=Liam|title=Jolla's MeeGo UI is ready to go - and it's on the hunt for mobile talent|url=http://www.zdnet.com/jollas-meego-ui-is-ready-to-go-and-its-on-the-hunt-for-mobile-talent-7000002728/|work=ZDNet.com|publisher=2012 CBS Interactive|accessdate=16 August 2012}}</ref>

On 2012-08-17 Jolla's COO Marc Dillon tweeted that they reached the first development target.<ref>{{citation | title = Together with our community and engineers first >100% development target achieved @jollamobile. | publisher = Marc Dillon| url = https://twitter.com/MarcDillonDotFi/status/236378524347420672 | date = 2012-07-18}}</ref>

On 2012-11-21 Jolla presented the Sailfish OS during Slush event in Helsinki, Finland. The same day Jolla has launched its website where direct live  stream from the Sailfish presentation is available worldwide for everybody. This was the first public presentation of the Sailfish OS.<ref>jolla.com</ref> 

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