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They've announced a number of companies to join their CAG. What is missing so far is any firm commitment that anyone is going to release one of these devices; w

• zanny 13y ago
  It's all html5 and qml apps, so you are already writing those for other platforms. If Ubuntu Phone sees even mediocre success, app developers can spend a weekend porting their thing.
• rogerbinns 13y ago
  Apple making an interesting contrast. Carriers that sell the iPhone have to make a sales commitment to Apple that about 10% of their subscribers per year buy an iPhone. The notable carriers that do not carry the iPhone balk at this: http://www.asymco.com/2013/01/17/the-iphone-moq/ http://www.asymco.com/2013/01/17/the-iphone-moq/ Making that minimum order quantity means the carrier has to actively promote and support sales of iPhones. As you state, I doubt the CAG includes any form of minimum order quantity, which means there aren't any incentives for the carriers to promote the phones. Canonical rather than the carriers will need to do demand generation. Samsung has a fairly high cost of sales (~25% compared to Apple at 10%). And nobody plays until you are spending a billion or more in advertising: http://www.asymco.com/2013/04/02/the-cost-of-selling-galaxies-updated/ http://www.asymco.com/2013/04/02/the-cost-of-selling-galaxie... Firefox phone at least has the advantage of hundreds of millions of Firefox users which allows a degree of familiarity and awareness. By comparison Ubuntu is a rounding error. Canonical have a massive hill to climb here. The CAG is at the base of the hill. I wonder what their strategy will be?