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by achiang 11y ago
A small plug for our company, Angaza Design; integration with various mobile money providers, such as M-Pesa, Airtel, and a bunch of others is one of our core strengths. If you're interested in learning more about how they work, and yo
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by achiang 11y ago
Or it's idiomatic for that language.
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by achiang 12y ago
YMMV, of course. I have found the exact opposite experience. https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlexChiang/posts/JKdr1LTLQD2
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by achiang 12y ago
FYI, for those who want to write cross-platform GUI apps but prefer to avoid C++ (even the mildly nicer Qt flavor...), there are alpha-quality go bindings for QML. https://github.com/go-qml/qml
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by achiang 13y ago
It will come with Android pre-installed already, in a dual-boot configuration.
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by achiang 13y ago
The current Ubuntu Phone image does not have any Amazon integration at all. When in desktop mode, you will be plugged into A/C power.
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by achiang 13y ago
> Either way I also don't believe this is in any way really connected to lower component price deals You don't have to believe it, but it is true.
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by achiang 13y ago
The cost of my team's engineering time over the next multiple months is not covered by the $32M. I do not think you will be surprised.
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by achiang 13y ago
We plan on an unlocked phone, with an unlocked bootloader. Unfortunately, for the planned volume, we won't have much influence with the SoC vendor, and therefore, it is highly doubtful you will see open graphics / radio firmware.
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by achiang 13y ago
We will not profit at all on this campaign.
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by achiang 13y ago
We've come a long, long way since WebTop. Our code runs fairly well on the Nexus 4 today, and through much dogfooding, we've learned that RAM is the biggest limiting factor in performance. So when (if?!) Edge ships with 4GB of RAM
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by achiang 13y ago
Sorry, it is not public yet.
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by achiang 13y ago
We assume it will be plugged into AC when in desktop mode.
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by achiang 13y ago
Nice suggestion. I'll bring it up with the team. Off the cuff though, I'd say the ideal backer is someone excited about open platforms that push the boundary of what we think of computing today. Arjan and team[1] proved that a 5-s
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by achiang 13y ago
We are not currently planning on supporting CDMA.
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by achiang 13y ago
Sorry, it's not available for public download at this time.
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by achiang 13y ago
Yes, we have collective centuries of hardware experience. No, we do not think a phone is a collection of parts.
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by achiang 13y ago
Manufacturing is expensive. The vast majority of the $32M goes simply to manufacturing. The remainder covers taxes, fees, shipping, certification, and returns. It does not cover the cost of the development team's time.
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by achiang 13y ago
Ubuntu for Android is our convergence product: http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android So we still use the Android software to drive the camera. As a photographer though, I have to say that I don't exactly
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by achiang 13y ago
My team dogfoods Ubuntu for Android every single day on the Nexus 4, and I'll say that it's performant enough to be a daily driver as a desktop replacement. Edge has 4GB of RAM planned, and will run even better than the N4.
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by achiang 13y ago
Ubuntu Edge is orthogonal to existing commercial discussions with OEMs and operators. It's a premier, demonstration platform, not a mass market device.
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by achiang 13y ago
Reselling someone else's developer phone from last year isn't exactly the marketing message we're going for. Edge is meant to be a premium product, not just another "me too". Unrelated: if you simply want to test dr
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by achiang 14y ago
You keep putting up strawmen. Show me the desktop Linux equivalent of Android, not Cyanogenmod. It doesn't exist - and you can measure that failure with any number of metrics. If Ubuntu can achieve that type of success and protect the fre
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by achiang 14y ago
The entire reason why desktop Linux has been a failure is exactly because it does not fit the needs of most people. And for that audience, "shiny" is equally important as "featureful". In the modern marketplace, you can't choose either/or.
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by achiang 14y ago
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of Ubuntu's raison d'etre, which is to bring Free (libre) software to the world. Except the rest of the (consumer) world doesn't value libre as a first-class feature. They want the shiny. The way we ge
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by achiang 14y ago
This article, while entertaining, is not true. Canonical will not migrate to SurfaceFlinger. Speaking on behalf of myself here, and making an individual decision to prevent the spreading of FUD. EDIT: And here is the public announcement of
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by achiang 14y ago
App developers will be able to use C++ if they like. /ac, speaking on behalf of self, not employer
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by achiang 14y ago
Exactly. The kernel community has lots of wisdom built up around rebase vs. merge, and the way I think about it is, imagine a tree of developers with Linus at the top, maintainers in the middle, and leaf nodes at the bottom. - leaf nodes ca
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by achiang 14y ago
I just want to point out that the link is for user submitted design suggestions and is not necessarily official Canonical plan of record for what will ship. http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/01/23/community-driven-ubuntu-... It's a subtle d
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by achiang 14y ago
Much of the software in Ubuntu is available on ARM today. If you have an Ubuntu ARM device (say, you are running the desktop on a Panda board), you can launch Ubuntu Software Centre and see for yourself. For a less pretty view (and one that

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