Ubuntu Edge was vaporware, and it was never going to be the first phone to anything. The gulf between "oh yeah, it's going to have a sapphire screen and the be

Ubuntu Edge was vaporware, and it was never going to be the first phone to anything. The gulf between "oh yeah, it's going to have a sapphire screen and the best processor ever and photon torpedoes" and actually doing the necessary engineering before ramping up to hundreds of millions of dollars in production is enormous. Companies that ship real products aren't just now "picking up the ideas as well" -- any technology that you see getting significant investment has clearly already been in development for years. Vertu has offered sapphire screens for a while now.