PartnerSpace

PartnerSpace is an exclusive zone for business partners in the user interface for 3rd party manufactured devices in Sailfish OS for mobile devices. This is concept of revenue model. Instead of cashing on licenses of the operating system, Jolla is offering Sailfish OS, a gesture based mobile operating system, to mobile devices manufacturers, including smarphones, for free, gathering their own income as small portions directly from the end customers using the devices. The feature enabling this revenue model on Sailfish OS devices is called "PartnerSpace"

The benefits

Jolla brought a new view of "PartnerSpace" into Sailfish OS user interface, which was not present before. This is an m-commerce business model for Jolla and their partners and customers. All sides can have benefits from lowering costs, shortening distribution chain, speeding up services and transactions in both directions. In this model Sailfish OS license from Jolla for device vendor is for free, hence the device with Sailfish OS is cheaper for customer.

The revenue

The revenue is generated upon an agreement between the "PartnerSpace owner" (content provider), device manufacturer, device retailer, and Jolla Ltd. It is generated every time the end customer makes a purchase using the PartnerSpace, what causes a small portion of that purchase is transferred to the company developing the operating system.

Operator's services integration

Thanks to Sailfish OS architecture 3td party services eg.operator's or parties having agreement with a particular operator can be integrated at low level of Sailfish OS services. This is significant difference in contrary to simple displaying adverts on a display. First of all integrated operator's services will be OS services so will not have negative impact on performance like slowing down, can use specific for Linux mechanisms for using hardware and software eg. to secure transactions, cryptography, communicating in real time machine-to-machine for booking and verifying to avoid overbooking. Integrated services can have more effective interface and UI without software in the middle like a browser needed so far. And having them all gathered in PartnerSpace allow not to have adverts in pop-ups everywhere in used device.

Security

For additionally improved security and user comfort biometrics can be used with regular Sailfish OS. For advanced needs like with big scale e-banking can be used enhanced and dedicated for such purposes Sailfish Secure. Using PartnerSpace as a service integrated into low level OS services additionally can prevent from several kinds of attacks like e.g. "pishing" when implemented correctly with Sailfish standard.

The promoted content

On Sailfish OS all the promoted content is planned to be visible on this PartnerSpace. Depending on the agreement it's possible that the partner on Sailfish OS devices has also an access to the notification system, integrating notifications of any new offers in specific for Sailfish OS place for all appearing notifications, guiding users to visit the PartnerSpace "for more". This way user is not "sentenced" for overwhelming adverts everywhere and always in the OS using mobile device.

Implementation

The first implementation was in 2016 announced with Sailfish OS 2.0.2. Aurajoki, the version for Jolla's m-commerce business model in Aqua Fish customized for Indian mass market. It was effect of Sailfish India activity.

References

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