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I can't contemplate how on earth they might reach tablets either. (Not ones hand-made for 125$, obviously, that one ran Windows anyway).
by guard-of-terra 15y ago
I can't contemplate how on earth they might reach tablets either.
(Not ones hand-made for 125$, obviously, that one ran Windows anyway).
- jiggy2011 15y agoThey have 3 options I think. 1) Get people to jailbreak their tablets and install it. Fair enough but it will be very niche and more of a novelty, will never reach critical mass to get useful commercial apps. Will probably get picked by Chinese manufacturers who will resell cheap tablets with Ubuntu re-themed to look as much like iOS as possible, probably called iBuntu or something. 2) Make deals with manufacturers and produce mass market tablets, they will have to compete head on with android and I'm not sure what their USP would be here. They would either need 100% android compatibility or would need to magic allot of app developers out of thin air. 3) Go exclusively for niche markets, for example selling to car manufacturers developing bespoke in-car entertainment systems. This would be a whole new business strategy for them and would basically remove the need for the "ubuntu project" as it exists today.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoNone of these options make what they do now viable.