Most, if not all of these, have been decided since before Ternus took over though.

Yeah, but Accenture is anything but a low seat org.

This might actually be the opposite of evil: if you try to insert the USB cable the wrong way, you don't need to rotate it, you can just try the next port. Seems more convenient to me.

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.