Well, Jolla was a meme company. The best shot a normal Linux had on mobile was during N9 era, and late Meegos.
After that things went sour:
- GTK+/glib dev community began to wither simply because of older members retiring, and no new blood
- DRM flamewar with record labels
- Android diverted a great amount of community resources
- Monopolisation of smartphone SoC market.
- Elop...
RIP the late Meego OS. Im still salty with how Nokia murder it. Its like a healthy beautiful baby just born and then the parent buried it alive to focus on their terminally ill older brother.
However, the parents cant handle the debt and commit suicide, entrusting older brother to his rich uncle.
Sure enough, the older bro didnt live long either. After a long coma, the plug was pulled on the older brother's life. Even his rich uncle cant save him.
Not Elop really. The Nokia board had already decided to sell to MSFT and brought in Elop to do it. If the N9 hadn't been delayed by years, things could have gone very differently. In retrospect, the biggest surprise was that the years delayed N9 actually turned out to be very good. Extremely delayed products are more often bad than good when they are finally released.
