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"What would have happened if you had only raised what you claimed you needed to crowd-source the tablet?"

I can't deny I also thought how much they underestimated their costs during the campaign.

"To me this question as such does not make sense, since Sailfish OS is our product, our crown jewel, which we aim to make perfect for all of you – the tablet hardware is only a platform for the software."

That's a very unfortunate statement you made there. I understand the stress you accumulated in the past few days is making dealing with the usual 3-4 trolls around here (yes, you guys are obviously trolls even to random visitors like me) not an easy task at all. I also understand English is not your first language (nor is mine), but please consider having somebody reviewing your posts. And if you already do that, please consider having a second, third, fourth and even fifth person reviewing your posts.

Let's break your sentence down, shall we:
"To me this question as such does not make sense"
No. Slap your hands for ever typing that crap please. Do that now. Done? Cool. Now reword as "I disagree with such views because this and that". You are dealing with enraged people waving their pitchforks and torches at you, and the last thing you want is have the chief troll shouting "HAAAA!!!! I told ya the captain is into insulting and stealing business!!".

"since Sailfish OS is our product, our crown jewel, which we aim to make perfect for all of you"
I think I understand your point. You develop SF. You sell SF. You like making software. Sadly software won't run on thin air, so you have to go through all the trouble of building the physical devices. That's your point of view and one can agree or not. What you can't disagree with tho is that you made a Tablet campaign. Unfortunately people tend to visualize a physical tablet in their minds when you say "tablet", and so that's what they expect. Software illiterates give the OS for granted, like you just fetch it from thepiratebay or something. That's a reality. You don't sell a software and give some device to run it. You sell a device and put something on to make it work. Sad, but you're fighting against windmills if you're hoping to change that mentality anytime soon. To normal people, you guys make phones. For that reason, I suggest you have somebody who has never set foot into your HQ reviewing your posts, in addition to the other 5 dudes.

"the tablet hardware is only a platform for the software"
As I said, I understand (maybe) your views. But as a matter of fact, you still sold us a combination of hardware and software. Even if software costed 99.5 and the hardware 0.5, you still have to deliver us those two things together. Not the hardware alone, not the software alone.
Otherwise you could have made a campaign to have SF officially support some Samsung tablet and release a tutorial on how to set it up. In that case it would be totally acceptable if you spent 100 on SF and 0 on the hardware, and I would just take into account I'd have to buy the hardware myself. But you even posted photos, the Lastu case, news about high quality screens and USB ports. Not very software-ish. So please no more "it's just a way to witness our software's magnificence". Without the hardware your software is as good as it was 50 years ago (ie: non-existent).
Sure, we got an update for our phones. But 1) it doesn't feature stuff you promised for the tablet (eg: split icons) and 2) it's not what you advertised on the crowdfunding. Again, you advertised a tablet with SF2, new CPU support, faster menus and all sort of whistles and bells, but a physical tablet nonetheless.
To repeat the latter example, had you made a campaign like "Major version bump" or something I would totally not complain. But let me state that once again: to me (most of us?) it was obvious that the Jolla tablet would be a combination of a newer, adapted for the hardware, improved version of SF plus a physical hardware. As much as I expect to find some piece of hardware in the box when I buy an Android tablet. Yes, Google doesn't care at all about hardware and lets manufacturers licence their OS. And yes, I don't give a flying crap about what Google cares about as long as there is something I can touch in the box I just paid for.

In conclusion I hope to see my tablet soon, but I really expect you to stop using those community-nuking statements.
I'm sure I didn't type anything you weren't aware of yet, but the message here is not "give me teh tableet now" as much as "STOP CAUSING PR DISASTERS". And yes, I still want teh tableet i giv u money four.