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I'm feeling lazy after the holidays. Does anyone have a good argument for why any smartphone manufacturer (or carrier) would choose Ubuntu Phone over official
by marshray 14y ago
I'm feeling lazy after the holidays.
Does anyone have a good argument for why any smartphone manufacturer (or carrier) would choose Ubuntu Phone over official or opensource Android?
EDIT: OK, I've broken down and watched the video.
Sounds like an important featre is the unified enterprise management with existing Ubuntu servers and desktops.
I wonder if this will prove attractive to the remaining Blackberry holdouts?
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- socceroos 14y agoYou can dock your smartphone and have a complete desktop environment - no half-assed stuff - a full on desktop environment with all your desktop grade apps. That's even better than WP8 can do. That alone is huge.
- fingerprinter 14y agoThis one is easy. Nexus X. Imagine if you are Samsung and you now must compete with Google releasing their own phone from google owned motorola. All those non-Google companies that now release Android phones should be looking past Android to something else. If they aren't, they are going to be extremely sorry in 2-4 years.
- marshray 14y agoYou really think Google is willing to drive Samsung, HTC, and LG away from Android just so Motorola can compete with them on hardware? That would be an interesting move. It will be very interesting to see how much Samsung, HTC, and LG (and Nvidia) do to support Phonebuntu.
- fingerprinter 14y agoIf you were Samsung, HTC and LG, would you be betting your business on it? Would you not actively be looking at alternatives?
- marshray 14y agoYes, I would want to keep all my options open for future generations. But that doesn't mean I would invest real money in fully productizing and marketing an Ubuntu phone unless there was expected to be a real market for it.
- daliusd 14y agoRemaining BlackBerry holdouts will get BB10 in the end of this month.