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Re: Canonical announces first partners to ship Ubuntu phones around the globe

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Post by JetSpiegel »

pjmlp wrote: post #13
gbl08ma wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have known for a long time that they were in Canonical's Carrier Advisory Group, and I can only wonder what use they have for Ubuntu phones. I think they didn't have much success in selling Windows Phone handsets on-contract, so maybe they are planning on offering Ubuntu as the third OS choice in place of Windows Phone (as in, Android/iOS/Ubuntu instead of Android/iOS/WP).

Might be. We don't have tradition with contracts in Portugal anyway. Pity that I moved to Optimus a few years ago.

Me too. Can't beat 6€/month for infinite SMS and 300MB internet.

Re: Canonical announces first partners to ship Ubuntu phones around the globe

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Post by Fomite »

bad_user wrote: post #24
gtirloni wrote: post #11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch#Target_market Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the company behind the Linux distribution believes that Ubuntu for phones will first find a niche in countries where Ubuntu is well known Linux is barely well known to the general population. Let alone getting them to differentiate the Ubuntu brand. Ubuntu strives to be “the smartphone that’s also a full PC”.[26] Canonical repor…

I think smartphones are more than able to meet most needs of users - word processing, browsing, writing emails and so on. The problem with smartphones is NOT processing power, but rather battery - in fact, if it seems that current smartphones are a little underpowered compared to our other gadgets, well, that's because Moore's law doesn't work so well for batteries - however we are talking about plugging in the smart…

> Android is right now number 1 in terms of market-share because it is open.

You're making a massive assumption regarding causality.

Re: Canonical announces first partners to ship Ubuntu phones around the globe

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Post by pessimizer »

pekk wrote: post #38
sirkneeland wrote: post #16

The market for a "pure Linux phone" (that is, !Android) is only so big. In that limited size market, we will now further subdivide it between Ubuntu and Jolla. I wish the two groups would at least seize on the opportunity to collaborate where possible (such as Qt apps)

MeeGo tried the kind of collaboration you mention and it failed horribly. Jolla can use some of the leftovers, but the point about the feasibility and usefulness of this kind of collaboration is already made. At least one of these platforms needs to become technically viable and then gain traction. I don't think that imposing a broken MeeGo process in such early days is going to help either platform, it could well ki…

MeeGo tried that kind of collaboration with whom? There weren't any qualified partners. Who was shipping Linux phones?

Re: Canonical announces first partners to ship Ubuntu phones around the globe

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Post by air »

pessimizer wrote: post #43
pekk wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MeeGo tried the kind of collaboration you mention and it failed horribly. Jolla can use some of the leftovers, but the point about the feasibility and usefulness of this kind of collaboration is already made. At least one of these platforms needs to become technically viable and then gain traction. I don't think that imposing a broken MeeGo process in such early days is going to help either platform, it could well ki…

MeeGo tried that kind of collaboration with whom? There weren't any qualified partners. Who was shipping Linux phones?

MeeGo was the merge of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo.

Re: Canonical announces first partners to ship Ubuntu phones around the globe

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Post by collyw »

rasz_pl wrote: post #36
LandonAB wrote: post #7

Makes me wonder if Canonical has the manpower to focus on 3 devices (desktop, tablet and phone).

They dont, they merged all three. After all touch is the future ...

Unfortunately all the manufacturers seem to think so.

Do you really want to try and type something longer than the average SMS on a touchscreen device?

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