I love the idea of Ubuntu phone and pay great respect to all
developers. The only phone I could use again if there was no UT any
more would be my old Nokia:-)
I have however this ugly nature of telling people what I do not like
in a project directly in the eyes. There are a few things that kill
this project right from the start. I hate all these small bugs that
are 5-30 minutes work to repair but noone cares. I understand there
are hundreds of bugs: some of them are just someones colourful
fantasy, some of them less important than the others and there is
noone to decide which should be fixed as a first one.
Let me give You two examples (for these two reasons I wouldn't give
You a dollar if You asked me a 100):
1. Marking a text. I mean these blue dots that are to small and since
OTA12 above the text!!! or let's say it straight: under Your finger.
Let's say it simply: it is a pretty important function, especially
because some apps do not cooperate with the phone app very well. You
do not have to rewrite a system to repair it and let's say it
straight: it does not work.
2. This will be silly. Yes, You may find it silly but as I wrote
already many times: first things first. Let this phone first calls and
rings correctly and then let us think about more complicated things.
So again, with full respect to all developers, I love that You
repaired the sms notification problem, but there is no way to hear my
E4.5 on the street. Some 250ms beep doesn't do the job. I know I can
probably just replace the *.ogg file the the one I like but... what
about all these people who can't do this? How "hard" is it to repair
this problem?
Perhaps I use wrong examples that You do not like but I hope You got
the idea. This is the same thing as with bluetooth that doesn't work
correctly since Ubuntu 12.04 though it used to work!!!
I really do not want to offend anyone but with such an attitude to the
development I simply can not write anything else. I like my phone and
love the tablet from which I wrote this message but can not understand
why simple things (for example my M10 doesn't open ebay page
correctly) need so long to repair.
There seems to be totally no quality management for Ubuntu touch.
So... now as You all hate me, I'll kill some Mashines in my absolutely
favourite game ever. Michael Zanetti, You made me play a game! No one
ever did it before;-)))
Cheers
Marcin
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*From:* advocatux <advocatux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
*To:* ubuntu-phone <ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:* Thursday, December 15, 2016 4:38 PM
*Subject:* [Ubuntu-phone] What's the plan for Ubuntu Phone in 2017?
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.
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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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