Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level • Hacker News Board

Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level

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Post by ekianjo » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 7:01 AM UTC

socceroos wrote: post #146

pionar wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, why not look into laptop docks? That's how we do it at my company. Each workstation is just a dock, screens, and mouse and keyboard. You can move around anywhere really easily.

You would not believe how many of my managers complain to us about how heavy and uncouth their laptop is to carry around. We actually had one guy apply for workplace compensation after his back caused him problems - he blamed it on carrying around a laptop + case. I think you'd be surprised at the uptake of this kind of device in the corporate world if it was marketed correctly.

Yeah, and this is especially the case with the cheapest laptops the companies usually buy: bulky, slow, not ergonomic and noisy.

Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level

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Post by freehunter » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 4:51 PM UTC

forgottenpaswrd wrote: post #43

At this prices they will need to add financing options to their phones. We are in the era of Ben Bernanke free money for everyone. Getting credit should not be that hard. Financing is a top priority thing for selling phones and cars in the real world. Probably not in Mark Shutterworth's land thought.

Even in the US, financing for phones is becoming more unfashionable with time. Prepaid plans and bring-your-own-phone is now on most if not all major carriers. Google is selling their Nexus phones directly rather than carrier subsidy. People are starting to wise up to the fact that financing is unsustainable.

Re: Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level

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Post by PhasmaFelis » Fri, Jul 26, 2013, 1:01 PM UTC

ANH wrote: post #113

I'm all for an Ubuntu phone, almost to the point of shelling out, but I'm not sure I'd get a commensurate benefit from this phone. I would probably go for it if it weren't for remote desktop apps like iTeleport. Pull out whatever mobile device you've got (this morning it was my iPad), launch the app, and there's your home desktop (assuming you've got a cell or WiFi signal). It's laggy, but such things improve over ti…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing It may take a bit more configuration than iTeleport (or not, I dunno), but it's worked fine on every major OS for years.