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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by systems on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:09PM (#14045652)
the requirements for a good desktop interface is different from the requirements for a good phone interface and arguably different from the requirements for a good tablet interface

size matters

yes like you i believe one OS across all devices is a good idea, but the interface need to adapt to screen size, and provide a different and suitable experience for certain categories of screen sizes and different mode

I believe a good option would have been to have a touch-mode and a desk-mode (desk mode being a more traditional task bar desktop UI)

anyway, it is really weird they didnt see this, with all the talent they have and the resources they had, but, they failed, so they were wrong

Someone else will try and will succeed, because yes, one OS experience across all devices is still a very good idea .. we just need someone to execute it better

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by onli on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:46PM (#14045938)
I don't really see why there are comments like this in this thread. Obviously they need to have a different UI, but Ubuntu Touch already offered a different UI depending on what it was running on. Or at least that was the idea. See the animation on https://www.ubuntu.com/mobile.

No one was trying to make a one-size-fits-all UI.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by petecox on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:08PM (#14046095)
Windows? Microsoft are pushing ahead with development of UWP and Continuum, with the creator's update due in 3 weeks - despite no new Lumias.

At least one third party is still keeping the dream alive with a crowd-funded WP10 phone announced this past week:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cerulean-moment-smartphon...

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by flukus on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:00PM (#14046820)
I'd consider windows 10 evidence that proves convergence is a bad idea. It does an absolutely terrible job of being a tablet and a desktop OS. At times it feels like two OS's in one and at other times it feels like you're stuck in the wrong mode (and after a reboot you are).

Half the apps (explorer and vlc are the two I used the most) work horribly in touch mode and the other half work horribly in desktop mode, like the way the pdf reader default to full screen.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by int_19h on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:59PM (#14046815)
It's an interesting device, but I think it's going to be a dead-end because of ARM.

The moment someone makes a phone that runs one of those Intel mobile chipsets, which can actually run x64 version of Windows, and all the existing apps, is the moment when I'll buy into that "it's a smartphone! it's a desktop! it's both!" line. But not before.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by topranks on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:39AM (#14048682)
It did have a touch mode and desk mode ffs!
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