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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/04/16 14:39, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> It's not an assumption. Sure, there will be a few who have never used
> Android and don't use Google at all, who buy an Ubuntu phone. But most
> are migrating from Android.
well true enough in part, most will be Ubuntu users who have Android 
handsets and want something more like Ubuntu. Some may be Ubuntu users 
who had iOS handsets and want something more like Ubuntu. I dunno if 
there are Ubuntu Phone users who don't use Ubuntu on the desktop, I 
suspect not many. It isn't a bad thing to support Google stuff well, 
lots of people use it, including me, however I think it is perfectly 
reasonable to assume that features that involve integrating Ubuntu Phone 
with Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server would be something that the 
userbase is in a position to take advantage of.
> Google is also a complete service, for
> which most all of the necessary code already existed, so it required
> very little design and engineering work, and was included from the
> beginning.