The Case for Ubuntu Phone
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The Case for Ubuntu Phone
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#2What I urgently need to see before I can buy an Ubuntu phone is an integrated 1-click backup solution:
I want to connect my Ubuntu phone to my Ubuntu notebook and click "Backup now", to have everything I need synced to my notebook (and not to some "cloud"/somebody else's server).
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#4What I urgently need to see before I can buy an Ubuntu phone is an integrated 1-click backup solution: I want to connect my Ubuntu phone to my Ubuntu notebook and click "Backup now", to have everything I need synced to my notebook (and not to some "cloud"/somebody else's server).
In lieu of such a tool, I wrote a crappy shell script to backup my Ubuntu Phones. :)
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#5What I urgently need to see before I can buy an Ubuntu phone is an integrated 1-click backup solution: I want to connect my Ubuntu phone to my Ubuntu notebook and click "Backup now", to have everything I need synced to my notebook (and not to some "cloud"/somebody else's server).
Have you checked out Syncthing?
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#6What I urgently need to see before I can buy an Ubuntu phone is an integrated 1-click backup solution: I want to connect my Ubuntu phone to my Ubuntu notebook and click "Backup now", to have everything I need synced to my notebook (and not to some "cloud"/somebody else's server).
In lieu of such a tool, I wrote a crappy shell script to backup my Ubuntu Phones. :) https://github.com/popey/buds
Thanks. It's just that the average user will never accept such hurdles. An automated backup solution is really one of the most important things to have in phones. No backup solution means one must be OK with losing all the data as soon as the phone gets stolen or lost.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
In lieu of such a tool, I wrote a crappy shell script to backup my Ubuntu Phones. :) https://github.com/popey/buds
Thanks. It's just that the average user will never accept such hurdles. An automated backup solution is really one of the most important things to have in phones. No backup solution means one must be OK with losing all the data as soon as the phone gets stolen or lost.
Indeed. I wrote that before there was a backup tool built into Ubuntu Phone. I saw a demo of the backup tool a few months back, but don't know if it landed yet.
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#8With the new Android versions, it is far more difficult to get tools like xposed to reclaim some of the privacy and control back.
Having a usable alternative is essential.
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#9What I urgently need to see before I can buy an Ubuntu phone is an integrated 1-click backup solution: I want to connect my Ubuntu phone to my Ubuntu notebook and click "Backup now", to have everything I need synced to my notebook (and not to some "cloud"/somebody else's server).
Have you checked out Syncthing?
Looks interesting, thanks. (The average Joe however will require a solution similar to iTunes's backup feature.)
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#10I applaud the OP's bravery, but after a long, long time in the telco business and having seen many attempts from multiple platforms towards gaining a foothold (Symbian, Maemo, LiMo - including Vodafone's own version - Bada, etc.), I have to point out that Ubuntu Phone, despite the vision and values behind it, is at a massively overwhelming disadvantage in terms of both telco appeal (what I and my former colleagues still in the device procurement part of the telco business have seen so far has no compelling advantage over Android) and ecosystem.
Even if selling off-telco worked, the one problem I see is the lack of that ecosystem, or a way to bootstrap it, because if it ran Android apps (and therefore fracture the user experience) that would not ensure developer adoption... And most people only want a "good enough" phone that lets them run apps and a few games, which further compounds the problem -- the value of Ubuntu Phone Just isn't apparent to them, which is sad.