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Jolla Oy (sometimes referred to as Jolla Ltd.) is an independent designer, developer and vendor of various mobile devices as well as their open Sailfish OS and Mer Core open source projects. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Jolla has research and development (R&D) office in Helsinki and Tampere and also an R&D department and office in Cyberport Hong Kong, and they are establishing R&D and operations in China. Jolla, in Finnish, is pronounced 'yolla'. == History == Nokia, after rapidly losing marketshare in the smartphone market, decided to create a new operating system based on Linux, naming it Maemo. After merging with Intel's Moblin project (also an open source Linux system), the project was renamed MeeGo. In October 2011, some of the MeeGo team left Nokia to form Jolla, utilizing funding from Nokia's "Bridge" program which helps establish and support start-up companies formed by ex-Nokia employees. Nokia paid employees leaving the company €25,000, but had not given any rights to patents or other intellectual property to Jolla. While Jolla's Sailfish OS can be considered a direct successor to Nokia and Intel's MeeGo and the N9 mobile phone, only its software is based on the open-sourced components of MeeGo, while the closed-source user interface design for all future devices had to be developed from scratch. Jolla went public on 6 July 2012, announcing its intention to develop new smartphones which utilized a gesture-oriented user interface. They named their operating system "Sailfish", which is a result of Mer and includes a gesture-based user interface developed using the Qt, QML and HTML5, as did Nokia's N9. Jolla co-operate with others to grow their application's and MeeGo ecosystem. Jolla announced on 17 September 2013 that their phone will be capable of running most Android applications, though without direct access to the Google Play Store.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jolla Sailfish OS Andriod Support )〕 On 7 July 2015, Jolla announced that it would spin out its hardware operations to brand new company established for this purposes and will continue focused on current activities as a developer and licensor of the Sailfish OS.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/07/mobile-maker-jolla-splits-in-two-with-sailfish-os-its-first-order-of-business/ )〕 In November 2015, Jolla had to lay off half of its employees due to financial problems. As of today (November 2015) it is unclear whether already crowdfunded tablets will ever be shipped. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jolla」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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