Ubuntu Edge fails to raise goal
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Ubuntu Edge fails to raise goal
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Re: Ubuntu Edge fails to raise goal
#2raised just over 40% of their goal - $12,809,906 / $32M.
was certainly an interesting experiment
edit: s/raised/were pledged/
Re: Ubuntu Edge fails to raise goal
#3I asked a few developer-related questions about it in multiple places, but never got any answers. I might've bought it otherwise.
Re: Ubuntu Edge fails to raise goal
#4Can't say I am surprised. I wish ffos had done this.
Re: Ubuntu Edge fails to raise goal
#5Ah well - at least they tried and who knows, maybe not having to take on the hassle of hardware design and production will lead to a better Ubuntu release for existing top-end phones.
Re: Ubuntu Edge fails to raise goal
#6I asked a few developer-related questions about it in multiple places, but never got any answers. I might've bought it otherwise.
What did you ask? I've been trying some Ubuntu Touch development recently and I found documentation for it to be ok.
Re: Ubuntu Edge fails to raise goal
#7Genuine off-topic question: why didn't they go through Kickstarter, to potentially reach more users (although a $32M goal is huge)?
Re: Ubuntu Edge fails to raise goal
#8I liked the idea, but I refuse to use a phone without a landscape physical keyboard.
Virtual keyboards are awful. All of them. They take too much screen real state away from me, yet they're small enough to make me struggle when trying to write something complex like my secure password...
Swype and similar options are not an option either, because I write in different languages, and no matter how good the text prediction technology gets, the software is unable to predict in which language I'm trying to write, especially with short words. (I understand this is an unrealistic expectation, but still, expecting a person like me to consider this alternative is an unrealistic expectation).
And I prefer not to say something about Voice Input...
I swear I tried different options, but I simply can't... Is a physical keyboard too much to ask? :(
Re: Ubuntu Edge fails to raise goal
#9Ah well - at least they tried and who knows, maybe not having to take on the hassle of hardware design and production will lead to a better Ubuntu release for existing top-end phones.
And let's not forget that there's also a small linux desktop distro called Ubuntu. Maybe they could try and improve that? But that's just crazy right? Who still uses a laptop these days? Nobody!
Re: Ubuntu Edge fails to raise goal
#10Did they actually expect to raise 32 million dollars? None the less for a $700 smart phone...