[Inspiration] Why is there no future for Ubuntu mobile phones?

Ubuntu and Its developer Canonical released a mobile system inspired by Android and Win8 on Tuesday. Canonical hopes to release a mobile phone carrying its system in 2014. At the same time, Canonical hopes that the mobile phone can be used as an extension of the desktop PC and become a keyboard, mouse, or even a second screen. In fact, this concept is not novel. In the past, UbuntuforAndroid was able to add a desktop Ubuntu system to the mobile phone of the Android system through a virtual machine. While U

Ubuntu and Its developer Canonical released a mobile system inspired by Android and Win8 on Tuesday. Canonical hopes to release a mobile phone carrying its system in 2014. At the same time, Canonical hopes that the mobile phone can be used as an extension of the desktop PC and become a keyboard, mouse, or even a second screen.

In fact, this concept is not novel. Previously, Ubuntu for Android was able to add a desktop Ubuntu system to the mobile phone of the Android system through a virtual machine. Ubuntu for Android is inspired by Motorola's previous Atrix (converting a mobile phone into a notebook through the expansion Dock ).

However, the appearance of Ubuntu for Phone (note, not the Ubuntu for Android mentioned earlier) was revolutionary last week, and Microsoft did not even have the guts to unify the OS of the mobile Phone and the OS on the desktop. We know that Android is positioned on mobile phones and tablets. Google provides Chrome OS for the desktop platform, while Microsoft WP8 and Win8 are two completely isolated sets.

So can Ubuntu reform shake Android, iOS, and Windows Phone? Even a root volume?

Through the official Ubuntu video, we found that users can slide from the edge of the screen to switch programs and enable menus. In general, the focus of the video is to tell users that our system is very refreshing 」. In appearance, Ubuntu's desktop system still has its own mouse and keyboard-friendly interface, but Canonical expects: all the installation programs must be able to adapt to the desktop and mobile terminals.

If the biggest challenge for the mobile phone operating system is to "make a good product", then Ubuntu is perfect. But this is not the case. Shake the dual-headed monopoly of Android and iOS, and shake the entire mobile and desktop system ecosystem, not only requires you to make a product that looks good, but also requires a large number of developers and users to accumulate.

In reality, the space left for Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10 is very small. Ubuntu looks like an exposed user-and this is already a euphemism. Who would "possibly" go public for 14 years? How much blood and rain will there be in the mobile field in a year?

Of course, without worrying about the market's viability, Ubuntu represents the epitome of mobile computing in the future. In the field of computing in the future, computers, tablets, and mobile phones will inevitably need to be integrated to get rid of the "tool" form and have more "ease of use 」. However, there is still a huge gap between the real mobile platform system and the desktop system. I believe this innovator will not be Ubuntu.