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I was surprised to see no mention of Ubuntu in this article, they did exactly what's being imagined with the phone switchable to full-featured desktop.
by benologist 12y ago
I was surprised to see no mention of Ubuntu in this article, they did exactly what's being imagined with the phone switchable to full-featured desktop.
- xanderstrike 12y agoUtterly ridiculous to leave it out considering the waves it made when it was first announced and was raising funding. The author either didn't do any research or wanted to pretend it was his original idea. What an obnoxious article, the Apple fanboyism is garish.
- mwfunk 12y agoThat's an awful lot of inappropriately bitter hyperbole to expend on what is basically a light "wouldn't it be cool if..." piece on MacWorld's web site, of all places. However, I'm sure you do the same thing when articles on Linux-centric sites fail to mention related Apple technologies, so it's all good.
- personZ 12y agoThe Motorola Atrix did that two year earlier, however, and is mentioned, making a Ubuntu mention redundant.
- vacri 12y agoAn Ubuntu mention is warrantied, given that in the very next paragraph the author dismisses Atrix as not having any worthwhile apps running. Ubuntu, on the other hand, is a fully-fledged desktop and can't be dismissed as a toy this way.
- personZ 12y agoThe Atrix was a full fledged Linux desktop, which could run virtually any desktop Linux app such as OpenOffice. Heck, the Atrix ran a Ubuntu-based desktop. Maybe the author just didn't know that, or perhaps they just discount Linux entirely compared to OSX and Windows.