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[Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx>]

Oh, another popular demand is probably Whatsapp.

There is a project [1] that is waiting for being ported to Ubuntu
Phone (they have a branch in their repo for Ubuntu Phone already [2,
3]). Maybe raising money here would actually work. [4]

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/whatsapp-alternatives-firefox-os#w_whatsapp-client-loqui
[2] https://github.com/loqui/im/tree/dev/platform/ubuntu-touch
[3] https://github.com/loqui/im/tree/ubuntu-touch
[4] https://github.com/loqui/im/issues/434

Anyone willing to give it a try? (kickstarter, or coding)
Peter


2015-12-11 18:16 GMT+01:00 Peter Bittner <peter.bittner@xxxxxxx>:
> Valid points.
>
> Though, in general, I guess doing Kickstarter projects for cool apps
> is not wrong as such. Anyone can do this as long as there are open
> resources available for the implementation (which is certainly not the
> case for Viber, for example; their server is out of our control, and
> they are not interested in developing their Linux implementation
> further; I've asked them several times).
>
> For example, you could raise money to pay Tim Süberkrüb for developing
> his Google Hangouts clone [1] faster. (Though I suspect it's still a
> spare time project. But maybe someone else would be incentivized to
> sit down full-time in the weekend for programming.) Or pay Tom Dryer
> for developing missing features you may see in his hangups library,
> which powers the Hangups app.
>
> Alternatively, start a Kickstarter project for the killer app you want
> and pay a developer or agency of your choice to implement it.
> (Provided implementing it wouldn't be a infringement of any dimension,
> copyright or so.) Choice are there. I think we as a users have to
> drive it. It would make a favorable picture for Canonical if they'd
> play a driving role in this process. (I'm guessing.)
>
> [1] https://github.com/tim-sueberkrueb/ubuntu-hangups/
> [2] https://github.com/tdryer/hangups
>
> tl;dr
>
> Go for it, anyone, start your Kickstarter campaign (a separate one for
> each app I'd suggest), and let the world know here on the mailing
> list.
>
> Peter
>
>
> 2015-12-11 16:32 GMT+01:00 Peter Spiers <vampireechidna@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> I'm sure Canonical opens it's development SDK to any application developer
>> to create an application for Ubuntu Touch. The reason why many will not yet
>> produce an app for this platform is it's popularity, not necessarily their
>> inability to produce one.
>>
>> The best option is to create a stable Mobile OS, open it to the market
>> through mainstream distributions (Phone shops) and allow it to increase in
>> popularity.
>> Then the larger development county will be open to developing for it, Like
>> Google, Uber
>> Without the required need to pay for them to develop for the platform.
>>
>> More important and above anything else, keep it open source and free to
>> develop applications on.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, 11 December 2015, 14:34, Boris Rybalkin <ribalkin@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>> I have just tested Ubuntu phone on my nexus 5 and I was impressed with the
>> progress. But I feel like I have no hands comparing to Android as I miss
>> many essential apps.
>> So after switching back to Android simple idea came to my mind:
>> I would pay for several apps to be ported to Ubuntu phone.
>> So why would not it be possible to organise kick starter like campaigns to
>> port essential apps right by their original creators, but this time people
>> pay for them?
>> I think Canonical could drive it as it has to be agreed with app authors
>> beforehand that it is possible and help them with docs.
>> Best option is of cause to have open source port, but even proprietary is
>> fine comparing to no app.
>> I would pay 10 pounds per app:
>> Viber, uber, mail app, mail, firefox :)
>> I understand it looks like inverted reality, but how would you bring people
>> in otherwise.
>> Thanks