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That wasn't the question: > What I really want to know is what the adoption rate of Ubuntu Touch is among the hacker/hobbyist/diehard Linux crowd. It's not at
by daenney 10y ago
That wasn't the question:
> What I really want to know is what the adoption rate of Ubuntu Touch is among the hacker/hobbyist/diehard Linux crowd.
It's not at all about selling one's services or gaining income from "apps". It's about gauging if there's enough (community) momentum that at least for this group of people, UT could turn out to be an interesting alternative.
- pjmlp 10y agoWithout developers willing to learn to code for the platform the community won't have any applications worth using.
- Apocryphon 10y agoI understand it's a circular problem- an app ecosystem cannot grow without developers, and devs want to invest only in ecosystems that have users. Or do they? I feel the thing about these alt-OSes is that without mainstream appeal, they need to go hard for the hacker/hobbyist/diehard minority, who are motivated by things other than the possibility of attracting mainstream customers. Ubuntu, as a Linux distro, already has that appeal- the trick is to expand that to mobile.