Don’t expect Ubuntu phones from major carriers until 2015

Canonical: Ideal Ubuntu phone user is someone who doesn't need a lot of apps.

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[jalyst]

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[jalyst]

MeR derivatives (Nemo/Sailfish, Plasma etc) are more ideal anyway, Canonical's all about controlling important parts of the stack so they can have a unfair competitive advantage* in the F/OSS world, they're no different to the more closed players in that respect.
Ars sure does love them for some reason though, they get far more coverage than Nemo/Sailfish & some other (more hobbyist) platforms, Ars does cover FFOS & Tizen occasionally, but still nowhere near as much as Ubuntu Touch.
Canonical gets heaps of (& regular) coverage, despite some of those platforms actually "delivering" much more than Ubuntu Touch has thus far...

*no matter how much Mark tries to obfuscate that, it's clear as day for those who've been watching closely & sniffed around

 

[jalyst]

It's been hard for MS with all their $ for several reasons, not all the same rules/impediments apply to smaller co's who don't have it's baggage.
The odds are still very much against them, but drawing comparisons directly between them & MS's plans for it's sw_stack/ecosystem is silly.
Completely different approaches... (especially WP8x <--> Nemo/Sailfish)