Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by jhasse on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:33PM (#14044864)

> Mostly being able to find OOTB tools that I want. I use f-droid on my android and I usually end up just going back to the play store to find anything worthwhile.

Okay but to be fair: If you had the Play Store on Ubuntu Phone you would probably also go there a lot more often. Especially for OOTB experiences ;)

> The Ubuntu phone gives me a real OS that I can just "apt-get install" something, then make a shell-script or something similar to fix my problem. Android's shell-system is a joke, which makes sense as they don't really want it to be usable. Ubuntu's shell system is much better, which means I can fix the problems that I come across myself.

That sounds nice indeed!

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by profoundwhale on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @11:29PM (#14047706)

With BB10 (Blackberry's OS) it was backwards compatible with most Android apps, but they didn't use the resources as well and slowed the phone down. If there was a native app, I always went with the native app.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by CaptSpify on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:10PM (#14045169)

> If you had the Play Store on Ubuntu Phone you would probably also go there a lot more often.

Actually, I would probably not, though I can't deny I would be intrigued to have it as an option. I am able to set up most of the things that I would want via something like apt, or shell scripts or similar

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by jhasse on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:16AM (#14048588)

How would you hack a navigation app with shell scripts?

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by CaptSpify on Thursday April 06, 2017 @02:04PM (#14052944)

I'm not sure that I would. I guess I could set up some kind of "I'm on my pc, send this address to my phone" script, or "tell $contact when I arrive at $location".

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