So if you don't plan to waste some penny on the lately announced Jolla smartphone running Sailfish OS on board, the Finland native Jolla Ltd.'s Chief Operating Officer, Tomi Pienimäki have plans to introduce their operating system to the Android platform for side-loading, soon.
In a latest interview with the a Finnish media, the company's CEO made his thoughts clear on launching the independent Sailfish operating system based on MeeGo and Mer Core open source projects on Google platform's Android running smartphones. He also made a note on that, they are not selling their OS, instead, the means can be of applications, services or even advertising.
"That is the plan. We are on device business and OS business. It is fairly easy to install the OS on Android devices. There is no such culture in these parts of the world [Finland], but there are people that are installing new operating systems on their devices. In China it is mainstream. About half of the smartphone buyers are upgrading their older or cheaper devices with a better version of Android. For us it is a possibility to distribute our operating system especially in China. There are websites that already distribute [OS] software and the Chinese customers are doing it so we don’t have to teach them. We just have to get Sailfish to those websites – and to make sure that Sailfish will run on different kind of Android devices," said Pienimäki
Source: Talouseläm