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

Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by pmontra on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:38PM (#14046316)

I'm for device convergence, a small phone as powerful as a current pro laptop. We're still not there and the battery would be a problem too.

The interfaces for the phone mode and the laptop mode could be very different, no problem with that.

With that in mind I welcome this move from Canonical. Converging on the same stack as everybody else is going to be good for the Linux desktop. I'm not worried anymore about compatibility issues, Mir and Wayland.

When the phone form factor will be able to fit enough computing power to be also a laptop, we'll find a way to design the appropriate UI. However note that with a fast and responsive network connection we could use phones as dumb terminals to remote processing power, so maybe that will be the solution to convergence.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by stock_toaster on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @10:20PM (#14047415)

I agree. I think once (if/when) we ever get next gen battery tech, we may start seeing more things changing.

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