ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Yasmany Cubela Medina <yasmanycm@xxxxxxxxx>]

As many says, if there is a shot it should be done, but i think not by the
main developer team. They should focus on the OS it self and improve it,
and lastly but not less the developer tools. Its really hard to develop a
complex app, The emulator does not work as expected and the images are too
confuse to use. If Ubuntu Phone will have a shot on real day life user
should have lot of applications to choose, from the ones the users cant
leave without (native facebook, native watsapp, native instagram, and so
own) to those you can only use one time as the million calculators on the
google play store. And that should be the focus of the main developer team,
how to improve the tools so developers can create amazing apps easily like
AndroidStudio 2.0 and make even bigger effort to deliver those missing
point break apps.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 5:57 AM Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think its more the case of ok when we the native release of instagram
> or whatsapp is in the ubuntu phone app store we would use it, but as a
> stepping stone to loose the frustration of not being able to use the
> apps you get used to using just run a few android apps here and there,
> im all for it! as far im concerned linux has always been about choice
> and i chose to run a android app on my ubuntu laptop, phone or tablet!
> and it works fine id say go for it just like running grand theft auto
> through wine as far as im concerned and peoplehaving been doing that for
> a long long time ;)
>
> Wayne
>
> On 23/02/16 09:46, Mark wrote:
> > FWIW, I'm on the "Let Ubuntu be what it is" side - at least for the
> > time being. It's still a nascent platform. It would be sad imo, if it
> > became just another re-spin of what already exists.
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand the app-store-envy. Especially not when
> > coming from Linux users:
> >
> > - people generally only use a couple of dozen apps (although the
> > unavailability of a particular one seems to be a deal-breaker for many),
> >
> > - there's a substantial canon of apps for Linux, which can only grow,
> >
> > - there's usually a substitute app in the Linux portfolio which is as
> > least as good.
> >
> > When it boils down to it, it's usually the absence of the wretched
> > WhatsApp underlying this argument. Well, if people want to communicate
> > with a Ubuntu phone user <THAT> badly, they can blooming-well download
> > a free, OpenSource alternative. :/
> >
> > It's somewhat alarming that a group of apps seem to collectively wield
> > such strength as to dictate whether an Operating System flies, or not.
> > I'm really hoping Ubuntu has a different, truly Linux, mindset that
> > stands above that.
> >
> > And devs of apps? Don't they want as much exposure as possible? Why
> > wouldn't they want to be on Ubuntu too? Hopefully, its development is
> > not going to be so seismic - as windowsphone - such as to put them off.
> >
>
>
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