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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxxx>]

But you shouldn't need an Ubuntu Edition model. You know it works, so you
can just get the phone and install Ubuntu on it. But this would be a very
bad time to sell Ubuntu phones, considering there are large and difficult
changes coming. This is not the time to attract newbies to Ubuntu on phones
as it's still perfectly possible that people will have to flash their
devices at some point.

I do wonder what kind of answers people are looking for. Surely, everyone
on this list knows that the goal is to create a converged OS. That means we
don't want an OS for phones, but an OS for computers. A phone is just
another computer in that model. But this also means focus will be shifted
back and forth between different parts of the system.

For phones, focus should be on moving to 16.04LTS, replacing Click with
Snap and things like that. But it is also important to get desktops to
Unity 8 and that seems to be the primary focus now. That makes sense to me,
because the people working on foundations aren't necessarily the same
people who are working on UX and you might not want to work on foundations
and UX at the same time. And, of course, the majority of the Ubuntu
community uses desktops and they're eager to get a new version of their
desktop as well. That is also a good thing for the phone and tablet
community, because more users mean bugs come out more easily.

If there are no important changes and everything is going according to
plan, then why would you expect an official statement?