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by lemonade 3850 days ago
Well, Blackberry still has quite a few governments as its customer, and will continue to have them for a while. And as I recall, the N9 still sold millions of devices even though it was no longer receiving any promotion. The consumer market is not the only road to success.

I also would like to think that after the Snowden revelations Nokia would have been able to convince many organisations that security and privacy are not dead, and that ones mobile phone is probably the most invasive technology in use.

It goes where you go, it listens to what you say, it reads what you read. It should have only one master - its owner. So far Jolla never had the scale, the public visibility or the political profile of Nokia as the European champion of technology. That story could have been told by Nokia far better.