Yes, I suspect that Canonical are attempting to "creat[e] a soccer mom friendly Linux" but I think the motivation may be to make some money so they can continue

Yes, I suspect that Canonical are attempting to "creat[e] a soccer mom friendly Linux" but I think the motivation may be to make some money so they can continue to develop the Ubuntu core. I imagine that a workstation/high end laptop developer oriented version of GNU\Linux will be developed, and many would argue we already have such distributions available. Room for everyone. I personally want my Ubuntu phone for perhaps nostalgic nationalist reasons.