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I don't really think this can be chalked up to chasing fads. Any sane business owner is going to want to spend time and resources going where the money is. He m

I don't really think this can be chalked up to chasing fads. Any sane business owner is going to want to spend time and resources going where the money is. He makes it pretty clear in the blog post that cloud and iot is where the money is, and since Canonical is a for-profit entity that's where they've gotta focus their time and effort on.

toyg 10y ago
That's fine; but the silliness is the "convergence" mantra. Different devices have different requirements, one size does not fit all; if you don't have the will to spend on multiple teams to build different gui shells, don't get in the game. Microsoft learnt this the hard way, almost losing its desktop dominance to the chimera of converged UI; and it looks like all desktop vendors are slowly reaching similar conclusions.