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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by pjmlp on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:08PM (#14046098)
There are no alternatives.

This ideology of open-source mobile OS goes back to Openmoko.

None of them managed to sell enough devices to keep a profitable business.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by ZenoArrow on Thursday April 06, 2017 @02:54AM (#14048497)
>"None of them managed to sell enough devices to keep a profitable business."

Nokia managed it with the N900 and the N9, the only reason they didn't continue is they lost their bottle and sold out to Microsoft.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by pjmlp on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:10AM (#14048558)
If you were fine with "open source" on those Nokia devices, you should be happy with "open source" on Android.

Also as a former employee I can tell they didn't sell that much units, specially when compared with Symbian devices.

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