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

Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by bandrami on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:31PM (#14046650)

Does anybody besides platform developers want a unified phone, tablet, and desktop experience? I certainly don't; it sounds like a very bad idea.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by raverbashing on Thursday April 06, 2017 @06:38AM (#14049385)

Correct

It makes no sense from an usability point of view

It's like insisting on a steering wheel for a plane.

Different means of interaction and limitations and use cases require different interfaces.

Also the "Ubuntu on the phone thing", it seems they were doing it because of the wrong reasons (mainly "We like Linux") rather than focusing on the user and the ecosystem

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by sharun on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @10:20PM (#14047411)

Engineers overengineering things when they have no new ideas. That's the entire convergence story

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by topranks on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:41AM (#14048690)

Phones are already damn powerful, and will get more so.

Why should we all have to buy another completely separate computer if we want to use a mouse/keyboard/monitor, when we already have phones?

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by bandrami on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:38AM (#14050883)

You have that backwards: why should your phone present the same UI when it's plugged into a keyboard and mouse and when it's not docked?

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