This might be the case, at least it sounds like it has been in the past. And might be that it still is the case. Might be that Jolla talked about wanting to grow the community and offer better platforms to the users but won’t put any resources for that. Now they at least have the change as there isn’t any outside investors included currently (at least to my acknowledge).
As I am new to this community I would like to support (even little) the new start and hope something nice comes out of it. Of course I can do the math that from C2, if Jolla makes +100€ profit of one phone, that is peanuts. Covers maybe 2h of one employee work. If we assume all three of the C2 patches have been 1000pcs per patch that is ~300k€ profit. That covers what, maybe 4-5 employee yearly salary+expenses? And if they support the device for lets say 6 years it isn’t hard to know that it isn’t goldmine. Or even good business. But it definitely makes it possible for people like me to enter the SFOS word more easily. Personally I don’t have enough trust in me I can flash a phone. Or if I can, it will take a lot of time, which I am not ready to sacrifice immediately. I am if I think I will make the jump and daily drive SFOS.
Here I agree 100%. I think the community ports have huge impact to the SFOS and app devs are the lifeline of SFOS usability! Definitely planning to show some love to the app devs also when I am finally able to accuire the SFOS phone and start testing them out.