Canonical announces Ubuntu Phone OS coming in early 2014

49. rusticguy posted on 02 Jan 2013, 19:41 3 0

WINTEL Mafia successfully managed not to allow growth of Linux on desktops. Now M$ is even making it more difficult by locking out dual booting on WIN8. Desperate for survival it seems :)

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/will-windows-8-block-users-from-dual-booting-linux-microsoft-wont-say/10772

60. jroc74 posted on 02 Jan 2013, 21:29 1 0

Uh....thats not good.... :(

If thats the case.....you can definitely count me out from ever installing any MS desktop OS past Win 7.

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59. jroc74 posted on 02 Jan 2013, 21:26 0 0

lol....yes that is annoying. I tested my 13 y.o. daughter to see something. Shes knows the difference bewteen an actual iPod and something thats not.

Her mother now knows too...thanks to our daughter...lol.

68. rusticguy posted on 02 Jan 2013, 23:55 0 0

Ubuntu now has as many desktop users today as Apple had in 2008. This is guess is not a small achievement.

71. bon24x7 posted on 03 Jan 2013, 02:02 0 0

And the Windows 8 that came out 2 months back already has more users than the entire 'Desktop' Linux base...sad but true...

marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-s​hare.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

1.19% vs 1.72%

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76. rusticguy posted on 03 Jan 2013, 06:12 0 0

ANd M$ share has dropped to 29% :)

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48. rusticguy posted on 02 Jan 2013, 19:35 0 1

Nokia is now a M$ Shell company :)

46. shuaibhere posted on 02 Jan 2013, 19:27 1 1

If you have used ubuntu in desktop...you will come to know that it does most of things without applications....I hope it will be same with phone..

47. PhoneArenaUser posted on 02 Jan 2013, 19:35 1 1

But how much of those things did you saw in presentation video?

73. shuaibhere posted on 03 Jan 2013, 03:17 1 1

It's just a demo...

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78. PhoneArenaUser posted on 03 Jan 2013, 06:58 0 0

Yes, I know but purpose of showing it is to attract people's attention so I think that if it had most things from Ubuntu then they would be demonstrating it in this video but they don't. Don't you think so?

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82. shuaibhere posted on 03 Jan 2013, 21:00 0 0

This product is still in planning stage....so we can't expect more from it....

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56. MichaelHeller posted on 02 Jan 2013, 20:33 3 0

I'd call the Unity bar pulling from the side original. And the fact that swiping down from different icons gives you different menus. The true convergence of mobile and desktop is also something we haven't seen yet, although Microsoft had promised it with the "shared Windows core" that got me excited, but hasn't gone anywhere.

I like how readers like you call stating a fact "hating on Windows Phone." I did a whole series on switching to WP, and I quite liked the platform. I've consistently said that it has the best chance to be the third heat in the mobile market. But, yes, right now it is still lacking in apps.

And, in case you didn't make it all the way through the article, I flatly said that while Ubuntu looks good, there are still no hardware partners, and no guarantee that it will have worthwhile apps available for it.

61. jroc74 posted on 02 Jan 2013, 21:50 0 0

Yea....who is gonna make the phones?

62. MichaelHeller posted on 02 Jan 2013, 22:09 0 0

Canonical is trying to push the message that if you already make Android devices, it would be super simple to install Ubuntu instead and sell that. Not too sure how many Android manufacturers would want to do that though, because it looks like Ubuntu might be more like WP where you can put custom apps on, but you may not be able to skin it.

74. roscuthiii posted on 03 Jan 2013, 04:14 0 0

I'm wondering if using Ubuntu though would shield them from patent litigation, or not. Could be a more tempting offer for them if that turns out to be the case.

May turn out to be the carriers ( at least in the US because of their industry stranglehold) that balk on this one if customers can customize apps but carriers aren't able to apply their own non-removable skins (apps too for that matter).

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