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Re:Ubuntu Edge Gets First Major Corporate Backer, Funding St... by wyager on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @08:44PM (#6176664)
A few folks from Canonical on IRC told me that they don't have any plans to support upcoming major smartphones. It sounded like they were hinting at hiring a Chinese OEM to make them a custom branded phone that they would support (but not a brand new phone; just a standard Android smartphone with an Ubuntu logo).

I said that was a terrible idea, and that it would severely limit the number of adopters of Ubuntu Touch, but they basically said "not your problem." True, I suppose, but I hope I misunderstood what they were saying.

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Re:Ubuntu Edge Gets First Major Corporate Backer, Funding St... by cbhl on Thursday August 08, 2013 @02:56AM (#6177657)
Frankly, F/OSS driver support for current smartphones is crap (binary blobs), and for future stuff the future looks bleak (no public driver releases at all from upstream, not even in binary form -- look at the new Nexus 7 shenangians).

To be honest, I don't think Canonical could plausibly support new major smartphones even if they wanted to.

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