ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[mark <j.m.holmes@xxxxxx>]

Hi

All the narrative surrounding convergence has been about one code for 
all devices: so developments in one area supposedly improves the 
experience in all areas. I realize that convergence hasn't quite 
happened yet, and that so far, seemingly Touch has been doing its own 
thing, but surely, tantalizingly, we're on the cusp of it with core and 
snaps: i.e. there's going to be a new protocol for the phone (desktop 
etc) soon. But more than that: so long as Canonical continue with 
convergence, the phone (and everything else) will always be part of it.

i.m.o. Bryan Lunduke is an agent provocoteur: all he wanted last 
Christmas was a truly Linux tablet, which he thought he'd never see. 
Well, that arrived literally a few weeks after his post in the form of 
the M10. :/

f.w.i.w My predictions for Ubuntu phone in 2016: Core and Snaps. New 
devices from OEMs. Perhaps a more easily portable system. And maybe 
other flavours of UT.


m


On 15/12/16 12:38, advocatux 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"?
>
> 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