"why an Ubuntu Tablet Won't Sell"

[szymon_g]

look, i've found quite interesting article about tablets with ubuntu. what are your thoughts about it?

http://techthrob.com/2010/06/16/why-...2%80%99t-sell/

[McRat]

look, i've found quite interesting article about tablets with ubuntu. what are your thoughts about it?

http://techthrob.com/2010/06/16/why-...2%80%99t-sell/

If you had a lightweight 10" touchscreen web-browser, eBook dispenser, video/music player it would sell right now. Most endusers don't care what O/S runs it. As long as it runs correctly.

The tricky part is Patents. Apple has some very silly patents that it's trying to enforce:

"Apple invented parsing telephone numbers out of text documents"

"Apple invented moving your fingers on a touch screen to do things."

etc.

[cariboo]

Quote from the top of the article:

Note: Mark Shuttleworth clarified that Canonical is not working on a tablet edition, but rather other companies are developing Ubuntu-based tablets.

So really the whole article isn't worth a read.

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

Quote from the top of the article:

Note: Mark Shuttleworth clarified that Canonical is not working on a tablet edition, but rather other companies are developing Ubuntu-based tablets.

So really the whole article isn't worth a read.

With the Canonical "clarification" added to the beginning or the article, the rest of the article seems to be misleading or irrelevant.

If I want a Linux tablet computer, I will build the software components upon the hardware the way I want it to work. I don't need to use Ubuntu at all if I choose not to.