I've been running the Ubuntu Aquaris E5 since it launched. The main reason I want to stick with it through the difficult early time (browser crashes continuousl

I've been running the Ubuntu Aquaris E5 since it launched. The main reason I want to stick with it through the difficult early time (browser crashes continuously), is that I want a proper Linux environment on which to develop applications for phones/tablets. I hate having to be forced into Java on Android, and IOS is too locked down and you can't use custom hardware. I hope they stick with it (the main phone guy recently left Canonical) but I can only agree that it is now becoming extremely urgent for Canonical to ship convergence, as without it, this OS is a poor cousin to the competition, even if the user interface is quite clean and fresh by comparison to the gaudy design of Android and IOS. It definitely has potential as much more of an open, blank slate for developers than the others, but the key word is "potential". It's not there yet.