This is way too ambitious, way too soon for Canonical. I don't think it will fail. I'm sure Canonical's done a lot of market research and, if nothing else, kno

This is way too ambitious, way too soon for Canonical. I don't think it will fail. I'm sure Canonical's done a lot of market research and, if nothing else, knows it will sell on geek appeal to a lot of people, hackers included. But it will be laughably unable to compete with iOS and Android. Apple is decades old as a company and designed a phone after it had hit something of a plateau between OS X and revolutionizing music (by that I mean they had fully established themselves and could spend time on another project, not that they were beyond further innovation). Canonical has not hit a plateau with Ubuntu, and tackling smartphones is more ambitious than the droves of companies looking to do it now would have you think. I think this will be similar to what happened with Windows 8 - tweaking the desktop version of software to fit a tablet/phone until neither is a complete package anymore.