They've been at it for a lot longer than 6 months. The shopping lens was introduced a year ago. There was also the Unity controversy before that. Debian has nev

They've been at it for a lot longer than 6 months. The shopping lens was introduced a year ago. There was also the Unity controversy before that. Debian has never particularly liked them for various reasons. I'd argue that if they are not going for the mainstream consumers (or enterprise), they might as well just close the company. For the reasons you mentioned, Linux users are quite high-maintenance and difficult to please. Evidence of this is how much Linux users tend to flame each other. I don't think Canonical really wants those extremely principled, very privacy-sensitive Linux geeks as customers. They would be behaving very differently to the criticism if they did.