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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Freedom and Choice are both largely
true of Android, Open webOS, Firefox OS, Meego, and Tizen.
Cross-platform app design is true of Open webOS, Firefox OS, and
Tizen, as well as probably others. I don't mean to put them down
for contributing to more Freedom and Choice, but as much market
share as webOS lost, which for a while was well-supported by
carriers, had a large Palm fanbase behind it, and sold reasonably
well, Ubuntu Phone OS has a huge uphill battle ahead of them to
develop a user base capable of sustaining a project like that into
the future.<br>
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My $0.02, for what it's worth.<br>
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- Kyle<br>
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On 01/03/2013 10:03 AM, John Wesorick wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Freedom. Choice. Truly cross-device app design. It
doesn't need to be successful in an x% of marketshare way. We,
as Linux users, got pretty excited when we had 1-2% marketshare
on the desktop. TBH, I'm more excited about Ubuntu for Android,
but I'm definitely going to try this out once they release the
image for my phone. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:53 PM,
Jonathan Jesse <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div dir="ltr">Why? This is the question I'm asking....
What will make this device successful in the tight market
that is already dominated by Android and iOS with
Blackberry and Windows Phone trailing in 3rd place. I
don't think the "geeks" will rush out to adopt this phone
as there seems to be declining excitement in things
Canonical/Ubuntu related.
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There doesn't seem to be a committed carrier either
which I think won't drive adoption as well. If they
can't get VZW or AT&T selling/pushing this phone
then it will have even worse traction in the US than
Windows Phone.</div>
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<div>Or is it all an Europe/Asia thing? </div>
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<div class="im">On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:54 PM, John
Wesorick <span dir="ltr"><<a
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href="mailto:john@wesorick.com" target="_blank">john@wesorick.com</a>></span>
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<div>So Ubuntu announced their Mobile OS today.
Not the Ubuntu for Android, but a full
OS. Here's a link to the video, <a
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href="http://youtu.be/cpWHJDLsqTU?t=6m30s"
target="_blank">http://youtu.be/cpWHJDLsqTU?t=6m30s</a>
I had read that they will be releasing images
for Nexus devices in the coming weeks. Anyone
else thinks it's worth a try?</div>
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