and Andy Rubin said “shit, if Apple can put UNIX on a phone, I can probably port Linux to one as well.”

Hmm, wasn’t Rubin trying to put it on a digital camera though initially? Then Google saw the opportunity, bought them, and pivoted to phones.

If you are referring to libhybris, that’s only true for Android phones with SFOS backported, such as the Sony Xperias. The Jolla Phone will be pure Linux, with required Linux packages provided by Mediatek. Source: I’ve asked the Jolla folks at the Mobile World Congress booth.

It’s assembled in Finland though.

I use the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension in Firefox to access Bloomberg, among others. I had it installed before it got taken down, so be careful where you get it from nowadays.