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szymon_g
June 17th, 2010, 12:04 AM
look, i've found quite interesting article about tablets with ubuntu. what are your thoughts about it?
http://techthrob.com/2010/06/16/why-the-ubuntu-tablet-won%E2%80%99t-sell/
McRat
June 17th, 2010, 12:22 AM
look, i've found quite interesting article about tablets with ubuntu. what are your thoughts about it?
http://techthrob.com/2010/06/16/why-the-ubuntu-tablet-won%E2%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
June 17th, 2010, 12:36 AM
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
June 17th, 2010, 01:28 AM
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.
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