And . . . ?
“Ubuntu for smartphones is expected to ship in the last quarter of 2013 or first-quarter of 2014.”
While it had a countdown and all the trappings of a big announcement of an innovation to wow us all, today’s announcement of an Ubuntu smart phone sometime after October — or in 2014 — left many just wondering what the big deal is.
No hardware.
No code.
No e-mails to community mailing list.
Forgive me if this doesn’t inspire joyous, tap-dancing and smile-inducing confidence.
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Boy, are you cynical. Somebody might think you were a journalist.
Maybeware?
I can see that Ubuntu flower with a question mark in each petal.
Although now we all know exactly why desktops have been messed up over the last few years – unifying phone, tv, mobile and desktop with the same phone-optimised GUI is just stupid. Stupid.
What next? Ubuntu Toilet Paper? Ubuntu Bidet?