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| r_a_trip Nov 02, 2011 10:02 AM EDT |
If Canonical succeeds in getting enough OEM's to produce Ubuntu tablets and phones with hardware specs on par with the crop of high end Android tablets and phones and iPads and iPhones in 2014, than they may garner enough initial interest to make a splash entry. If the initial buzz lasts is entirely dependent on the quality of their own mobile software stack and their ability to attract enough third party developers to make software for their mobile devices. If Canonical thinks that trimming some fat from a desktop distro and plonking a touch framework on top is enough to play in the mobile arena, they are in for some serious dissapointment. Touch is 100% essential in tablets and smart phones. It needs to work flawlessly and applications need to be designed for touch. Anything short of that will doom the platform. It will be interesting to watch what they come up with. If it is a mildly touchified desktop distro, with your standard Firefox, LibreOffice, Banshee and X-eyes, it'll be over before it starts. If they go for the Android emulation route for apps, they will not make it big. The attraction of Android is the direct access to the Android market (the real deal from Google) and several Google services. An Android clone market without Google services, possibly with less available apps, simply doesn't have that appeal. Only if they are able to come up with a rock solid platform with a good native application store and the developer tools to attract a large group of third party developers, they have a chance to carve out a piece of the pie. Last but not least, their phone application better not be buggy, crashy or laggy... |
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