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[Alan Pope <alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/01/13 14:55, Petko wrote:
> The OS will be
> open source and so forth ,and they may do as they like , but the idea is
> that if Cannonical recognises the XDA community and cooperates the work
> more or less with them - it will be a big gain for both sides (IMHO).

We haven't explicitly reached out to the XDA community yet that I'm 
aware of. Once the source and image are posted online, I'm sure the XDA 
community will get involved, and (as with other communities) they'd be 
welcome to.

> Now  , for what I have to say :
>  From all the reviews that I went through the productive part of it was
> : the gesture system will be hard to learn . So by my opinion it should
> be a priority to make a "Quick learning game"-type of thing . It's not
> something to throw in the marketing side of things , but it is something
> that every non-geek ,so to say, user should go through (more arguments :
> [2] ) . I see it as an app that the user is exposed to on the first use
> (I can't think of the best solution for xposure right now) , which goes
> like this

It's actually not hard to learn the gestures on the Ubuntu Phone. There 
are after all only 4 edges, and once you know what those 4 edges do, 
you're done.

Someone is free to make such an app as you suggest though, whether it 
would be shipped on the phone would be a decision for another day..

> Those two simple steps integrated in a tab of Launchpad ("Get started"
> or whatever) will take away a looot of the resistance that potential
> contributors have to overcome .

We're working on documenting how app developers can get involved 
creating applications for the platform. It'll feature under 
http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/ when complete.


Cheers,
--
Alan Pope
Engineering Manager

Canonical - Product Strategy
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