ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 December 2016 at 16:38, advocatux <advocatux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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"?
>

Nice question :)

Was thinking about his yesterday.  Im still super optimistic about Ubuntu
Phone, simply because, there's nothing else like it out there.

I expect the challenges of creating a phone without multi billion dollar
budgets is enormous, but what has been achieved to date is amazing.

Regarding "first division" I dont think ANY phone right now is in the first
division.  But UP will offer features that will be simply impossible
elsewhere.

My thoughts around this are that we are in a pattern of bug fixing and
moving towards convergence.  When those two things are done, there will be
new carriers.

Happy holidays, keep up the good work, and I hope to contribute more in
2017!

>
>
> Regards.
>
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> 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
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