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Mir is still a product that Canonical ships and supports. The converged desktop/phone project was cancelled 4 years (many "not longs" in move-fast-and-break-thi
by bregma 4y ago
Mir is still a product that Canonical ships and supports. The converged desktop/phone project was cancelled 4 years (many "not longs" in move-fast-and-break-things timescales) after the Edge proposal was cancelled and really really had nothing to do with the Edge proposal.
I know and understand that I'm an insider with actual information and facts but the strongly-help uninformed opinion of randos on the internet is not enough to change the experience I had when I was there.
- brnt 4y ago> the strongly-help uninformed opinion of randos on the internet Funny, based on my inside info you look to be one :) Maybe should shouldn't assume so much, since you are obviously keenly aware of of how one might look on the web.
- lproven 4y agoIt was amusing to read @bregma's comments here, because they said what I was thinking at each point. The dates are a matter of public record, and trivially Googled. It is not "insider knowledge" to have a memory. The phone flopped in 2014; the desktop and convergence projects weren't cancelled until the HN thread four years later. IMHO as a Unity user, the phone deserved to flop. It offered no new compelling features. If it had had some big-ticket selling point, like a slide-out hardware keyboard -- something that used to be a widespread feature in smartphones before the iPhone -- then I would have backed it. I did back the Planet Computers Gemini and I have one. It's a lovely device. But it didn't. To conflate these things is entirely bogus.
- brnt 4y agoAmusing that you seem to have ignored to read other comments. And that you missed their contradiction: mir was formally cancelled (as if there was nothing between the phone and that) 4 years later and is still on shipping. Anyway.