Today Canonical officially announced Ubuntu for phones http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone. Usually a new phone OS announcement is not much to get excited about, but Ubuntu’s entry has been anticipated for years. I am interested in this because Canonical’s Ubuntu is the most widely adopted and supported Linux distribution and they are promising a level of convergence never seen before. Eventually Ubuntu will be able to run the same OS on the server, desktop, tablets and phones. It is also promising good performance on lower end hardware.
Putting aside the difficulty Canonical will face in gaining significant market share with Ubuntu for phones I find a lot of things I initially like about their approach:
As a developer I am excited to see Ubuntu for phones. The SDK is out now http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/ I’m planning to try it out and am looking forward to learning more in the coming months. There will be more information about it at this year’s CES next week.
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Awesome that it uses Qt. It's one of the few UI frameworks I enjoy using. Hopefully it gains in popularity.
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