> I don't know why anyone would want to use an Ubuntu smartphone, excluding the obvious free software implications.
So... you do know why.
> It's guaranteed to be worse than virtually everything else on the market.
This is a personal guess you made.
> And why would Canonical even want to get into this business. You're competing against Apple, Google, Microsoft and Blackberry. They cannot win.
This is what I don't get from the HN community: you want to have your cake and eat it too. How many comments and posts over the last few weeks have been all about the NSA snooping on your data with these big corps handing everything over? Yet for some reason, you ONLY want Apple/Google/MS/BB to run the phone market!
They cannot win if the world was full of people who thought and acted like you, but I'd put my money that it isn't and that organizations like Canonical can (and should) compete against big tech companies.
>How many comments and posts over the last few weeks have been all about the NSA snooping on your data with these big corps handing everything over?
I don't know, I haven't written any of those comments.
>They cannot win if the world was full of people who thought and acted like you, but I'd put my money that it isn't and that organizations like Canonical can (and should) compete against big tech companies.
They can't win if the phone market is in any way based on merit. Canonical's only hope lies in the massive success of a truly awful phone like the Galaxy S series.
> I don't know why anyone would want to use an Ubuntu smartphone, excluding the obvious free software implications.
So... you do know why.
> It's guaranteed to be worse than virtually everything else on the market.
This is a personal guess you made.
> And why would Canonical even want to get into this business. You're competing against Apple, Google, Microsoft and Blackberry. They cannot win.
This is what I don't get from the HN community: you want to have your cake and eat it too. How many comments and posts over the last few weeks have been all about the NSA snooping on your data with these big corps handing everything over? Yet for some reason, you ONLY want Apple/Google/MS/BB to run the phone market!
They cannot win if the world was full of people who thought and acted like you, but I'd put my money that it isn't and that organizations like Canonical can (and should) compete against big tech companies.