However, there are people in US available to pay between $1.200 and $2.000 for a smartphone fully Android compatible but secure and privacy compliant.
For a piece of hardware that which the specs are below of Sony Xperia 10 II on GSM-Arena and Jolla sells for $360¹ as you can see:
Other significant differences:
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hardware kill switches for camera, microphone, bluetooth, wifi and mobile networks.
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the premium version is build in USA instead of outside the country
The 2nd point can be withdraw and the target price became €1.200¹ while the Jolla top gamma smartphone² is offered for €450 minus the cost for the Alien Dalvik license and others stuff like Sony permission fee of re-locking the boot.
There is a gap larger of €800 per unit between a smoothless user experience and the current Sailfish OS running on Xperia. I cannot say about Jolla OS because I never seen it.
Remains the gap of the kill switches but as long as you can remove the battery to a smartphone, it safe enough. It is not equivalent because kill switch allows the smartphone to be completed discontected but still functional³.
Conclusion
Improving the user experience for SFOS and increase the Android compatibility can bring to Jolla:
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a value that fullfil that gap and sell their Jolla Phone '22 and X23 in USA at higher prices
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which is more probable and fair, sell much more devices at a little bit more the price listed today⁴
Going for the 2nd way, they will start to raise money to increase - not the number of native applications - but the user experience. In such a way the Sailfish OS will go out the hakers niche and reach the advanced users market.
NOTES
¹ €329 are c.a. $360 at the current exchange rate but usually in consumer electronic the conversion ratio used by companies in proposing their priceses is 1:1) therefore in the following part, I will use 1:1 conversion rate.
² which is the Jolla Phone '22 because the Jolla X23 is a rugged device which is a completely another market and we cannot confuse apple with bananas.
³ in Purism 5, there is not a kill switch for the GPS hardware and in theory the GPS chip is able to fix the position and store it into a internal memory for future uses and it would be not so strange because speed / direction of travelling are differential quantities.
⁴ a reasonable estimation indicates between €30 for the X10 II and €150 for the X24/'24 of added value per unit sold considering a selling 2x of devices.