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[advocatux <advocatux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ubuntu Developers & Supporters, first of all thank you for your 
work. Also Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year.

I do think this is the perfect time to talk about Ubuntu Phone (UP) and 
its next future.

Mark Suttleworth said in May UP is not in the main focus, and that his 
daily phone is not UP [0], but I don't interpreted it as far as Bryan 
Lunduke (Social Media Marketing Manager of SUSE) does, when talking 
about his 2016 predictions [1]:

"(Prediction for 2016) Canonical will pull away from phones.

Canonical/Ubuntu pulling away from the phone market? This is a hard one 
to measure.

Wait. No, it’s not.

The last press release from Canonical that was phone-related was back in 
April. And the main press page for Canonical doesn’t list a single thing 
about phones. The last several announcements from Canonical have been 
very enterprise-centric. Even in the lead up to the holiday shopping 
season, not a peep about phones.

Nailed it. Canonical pulled away from phones during 2016 in order to 
focus on enterprise functionality."


Personally, I simply do think is just a question of time, and I have 
great faith in the UP project.

So Dear Devs, what's the plan for 2017? How can we help to speed up 
Ubuntu Phone development? What can we do to get UP to play in the "First 
Division"?

Regards.

--
advocatux


[0] 
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/05/mark-shuttle-worth-talks-ubuntu-phone-snappy

[1] 
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3145664/linux/2016-linux-predictions-which-ones-came-true.html