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My bad, I should've really explained it better in the opening post. How I see things going, though of course I could be wrong, is that at home you'll probably

by MLR 13y ago

My bad, I should've really explained it better in the opening post. How I see things going, though of course I could be wrong, is that at home you'll probably just have a monitor, with your KB/Mouse setup of course, and you'll just plug your Surface like device into it. I think the Console ideology this gen also supports my point somewhat, they didn't go all out for power with a big complicated architecture, they're just using x86 with a low power processor designer. Plus with the tapering off with graphics gains that we're seeing you'll be able to create a fairly similar experience to the high end on lower power devices, which I think will benefit that type of device. Also I also think Windows RT was a bad idea, they should've just gone all in with the Surface Pro, which I think is the future honestly.

Mikeb85 13y ago
This may be the future. Ubuntu is already going this direction, with Ubuntu on Android, Ubuntu mobile, the desktop of course and it's all going to be merged together...
- jlgreco 13y ago
  Meanwhile, didn't Ubuntu recently, rather publicly, fail a crowdsourcing campaign because they couldn't find enough people who actually care about their mobile proposal? Yeah... I'm just not seeing that stuff as the future. Maybe this will seem like a very foolish comment in 3 or 4 years, but I doubt it.
  - Mikeb85 13y ago
    They failed to pre-sell a large amount of expensive smart-phones. This doesn't mean anything concerning Ubuntu's success on phones in general, never mind their place in the computing landscape...
    - jlgreco 13y ago
      That was them putting forward their best effort, right? I mean, they wouldn't intentionally start out with "Plan B"... All of their market research said that plan was the most likely to succeed, so at the very least they demonstrated their inability to accurately judge what people want. I think the failure of that campaign says a lot more about the viability of Canonical's dreams than many are willing to admit.
      - Mikeb85 13y ago
        Had they sourced out a phone they could sell for 400 dollars, and maybe bumped up the delivery time to around Christmas, and used Kickstarter instead of Indiegogo, I think they could have been very successful. For myself, and I'm sure many others, spending 800 dollars on a product I won't see for nearly a year is a bit too much...
      - rlpb 13y ago
        The Ubuntu Edge wasn't their primary phone plan. Ubuntu Touch (developer preview) images were already available, for example for the Nexus 4. Ubuntu were already speaking to carriers (http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/carrier-advisory-group http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/carrier-advisory-group) but the Ubuntu Edge had nothing to do with that side of things.

by MLR 13y ago

Mikeb85 13y ago

This may be the future. Ubuntu is already going this direction, with Ubuntu on Android, Ubuntu mobile, the desktop of course and it's all going to be merged together...

jlgreco 13y ago
Meanwhile, didn't Ubuntu recently, rather publicly, fail a crowdsourcing campaign because they couldn't find enough people who actually care about their mobile proposal? Yeah... I'm just not seeing that stuff as the future. Maybe this will seem like a very foolish comment in 3 or 4 years, but I doubt it.
- Mikeb85 13y ago
  They failed to pre-sell a large amount of expensive smart-phones. This doesn't mean anything concerning Ubuntu's success on phones in general, never mind their place in the computing landscape...
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    That was them putting forward their best effort, right? I mean, they wouldn't intentionally start out with "Plan B"... All of their market research said that plan was the most likely to succeed, so at the very least they demonstrated their inability to accurately judge what people want. I think the failure of that campaign says a lot more about the viability of Canonical's dreams than many are willing to admit.
    - Mikeb85 13y ago
      Had they sourced out a phone they could sell for 400 dollars, and maybe bumped up the delivery time to around Christmas, and used Kickstarter instead of Indiegogo, I think they could have been very successful. For myself, and I'm sure many others, spending 800 dollars on a product I won't see for nearly a year is a bit too much...
    - rlpb 13y ago
      The Ubuntu Edge wasn't their primary phone plan. Ubuntu Touch (developer preview) images were already available, for example for the Nexus 4. Ubuntu were already speaking to carriers (http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/carrier-advisory-group http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/carrier-advisory-group) but the Ubuntu Edge had nothing to do with that side of things.