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Who killed Ubuntu phone then?
by red75prime 9y ago
Who killed Ubuntu phone then?
- ahmeni 9y agoTime traveling UX designers to prevent a future catastrophe.
- jay_kyburz 9y agoAre there any manufactures building phones I can just install some form of Linux on? Update: I mean, other than Android :) Update: I'm reading about Tizen now and Sailfish
- ekianjo 9y agocheck postmarketOS, but it's not officially supported by any vendor.
- flukus 9y agoIt seems like the Sony Xperia X is becoming a sailfish option: https://blog.jolla.com/sony-xperia-project-update/ https://blog.jolla.com/sony-xperia-project-update/ Now if only I could work sony's naming scheme. Apparently the x series is the replacement of the z series (what happened to the y series?). Then looking at local retailers, all I can find are the XZ phones, so who knows what they are. Haven't looked at specs yet because I'm lost in code names. I really wish buying from any other manufacturer was as simple as buying from apple.
- steanne 9y agojust found a name chart. http://www.fonearena.com/blog/224635/sony-g8441-with-snapdragon-835-android-8-0-surfaces-in-benchmarks-ahead-of-ifa-2017.html http://www.fonearena.com/blog/224635/sony-g8441-with-snapdra...
- utku_karatas2 9y agoNo way. Time traveling UX designers are the ones designing Linux DE's today.
- giancarlostoro 9y agoProbably the focus on building a whole new DE that just mimicked Gnome for the most part, that probably wasted a bit of their engineering time instead of just building on top of Gnome which was extensible already. A plugin for a DE is easier to maintain than a whole DE I would think. Anyway, that's just my small theory. I was annoyed to find out it finally died. I would of bought a Ubuntu phone if my carrier had ever offered one here in the US.
- Ologn 9y agoThe first Ubuntu phone was not released until February 2015. By that time, 1 billion Android devices had already been sold. The first Android phone was sold in October 2008. The iPhone was released in June 2007. Ubuntu entered the market six years later and had to take on these two market giants, as well as other competitors like Microsoft still trying to get a seat at the table.
- undersuit 9y agoDrivers.