Re:The future of Ubuntu revealed
by adrianhoward on Monday December 03, 2012 @08:36AM
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I would personally think that the USP that they have on the Ubuntu desktop is something that non-technical folk quite like to use. From what I've seen they've done that very well. From what you can see on their design approach from the outside I don't think they'll mess that up.
Time will tell.
What unity desperately needs is better NLP.
If I type something and it can infer that it's probably a book title then show me books, probably a film title then bring up IMDB but if I'm typing "xterm" I really only want xterm.
12.10 seems to take the opinion that every search you do should search everything by default, not even google does that.
If they are going to follow this model with Amazon, there isn't really any reason to believe they won't do it for anyone who offers them a sweet affiliate deal.