Six Reasons Why Ubuntu mobile phone system can kill WP8

Ubuntu has just released a mobile operating system on its official homepage. The system is fully open-source and free of charge and can be divided into two versions: & ldquo; Basic edition & rdquo; and & ldquo; advanced edition & rdquo. Among them, & ldquo; Basic edition & rdquo; has low requirements for mobile phone configuration, but has limited functions. The system uses full gestures, and each edge of the screen corresponds to different operations. For example, you can call out the program menu by sliding your finger at the left edge of the screen temporarily, sliding from the left side of the screen to the right side will show the currently opened applications, temporarily on the screen

Ubuntu has just released a mobile operating system on its official homepage. The system is fully open-source and free of charge, and can be divided into "Basic edition" and "Advanced edition. The general edition has low requirements on mobile phone configurations, but has limited functions. The system uses full gestures, and each edge of the screen corresponds to different operations. For example, you can call out the program menu by sliding your finger at the left edge of the screen temporarily, sliding from the left side of the screen to the right side of the screen shows the currently opened applications, sliding your finger on the right side of the screen temporarily is similar to the "Return key" function, and so on. The Ubuntu mobile system supports HTML5 web applications. Each program can run independently without a browser and has its own icon. So far, some vendors such as Google and Facebook have launched HTML5 web applications. The official homepage also states that Ubuntu mobile supports other programming languages, such as C and C ++, and provides SDK packages for developers. In addition to the above content, the Ubuntu One cloud Synchronization Service will also log on to the system, users can share files between multiple devices.

So what are the advantages of Ubantu over WP8?

1. Open Source

Although open source is not a good thing, it is very popular with its highly self-made and open-source spirit. Although Linux cannot compete for Windows series on the desktop, however, its unique internal logic makes it widely used on servers and supercomputers. more APIs are conducive to the developer's imagination. It is hard to imagine what the WP8 system cannot achieve even the power-on display.

2. Attitude

Although the WP series strives to catch up with IOS and Android mobile systems, as a giant enterprise, Microsoft is undoubtedly suffering from major enterprise problems, such as lack of communication with customers, in the majority of bugs accumulated in wp7, the Microsoft team did not effectively listen to the voice of the customer, while Ubantu mobile operating system was able to take advantage of the latter from scratch, so as to take the customer seriously, after all, for a new system, the customer is the first.

3. New Student

In the mobile operating system, a large number of gesture slide operations were adopted. Because of the webOS of Palm, two Palm employees Peter Skillman and Matias Duarte sent to Nokia and Android 4.0 respectively, on Mobile Ubuntu, gesture operations are used more thoroughly-the operations on mobile Ubuntu are completely completed based on gestures. Unlike desktops, mobile devices require a new method for interaction devices, and gesture operations emerge. You do not need to click precisely to make full use of them, this will bring about a new operation experience. Although Metro is welcome in a bold and eye-catching manner, its rigid and dazzling dynamic structure does not effectively organize interaction methods and there is room for improvement.

4. Free

Another feature of mobile Ubuntu is its low hardware configuration requirements, high and low availability, and cross-platform capabilities.

Ubuntu has repeatedly stressed that its system does not use Java virtual machines, but is based on native code, so it runs very efficiently (it sounds unconvincing ......). Even with the reference of the hardware configuration in the Android world today, the minimum hardware configuration requirements are not high, let alone the official release of hardware in the early 2014 S. obviously, Microsoft's unified hardware configuration lacks a strategic vision. Whether it is WP7 or WP8, It is artificially limited to the current hardware level, making the current WP series inferior to Android in terms of hardware level, at the same price, others can use quad-core, while you can only use dual-core WP. for example, Android has entered the 720 p era, and WP is still hitting.

5. Architecture

Ubuntu supports both ARM and X86 architectures. In fact, although the Ubuntu Desktop version only has the official X86 architecture version, Canonical is an active member of the Linaro project designed to port Linux applications to the ARM architecture. Ubuntu indicates that because native code is used instead of a Java virtual machine, the memory overhead of the application is very low, and the system can run smoothly even on a low hardware configuration. Although the WP series are smooth enough, its architecture support and energy consumption applications are not very effective. Ubantu supports both ARM and X86 and can call a variety of resources at a higher level. This may be the integration direction of WP9: not only sharing the NT kernel, in addition, why do I have to modify an APP to install it on other devices? Developers say it hurts. We need a unified programming method. The object-oriented programming language of cross-platform application software is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, rather than Microsoft's compromise.

6. Experience

The unified experience of PCs, mobile phones, and TVs was originally a three-screen cloud proposed by Microsoft. When Ubuntu gave up Gnome's self-developed Unity desktop environment, it was heavily criticized, at the beginning of the cross-platform process, such "adventure" actions began to return. Ubuntu has launched the smart TV version system Ubuntu TV from a desktop computer system, and now the mobile version system. Ubuntu officially emphasizes the unified experience. We can see that a large number of interface elements (such as the left application sidebar) and functional features (such as global search) are unified on the three platforms. Canonical hopes to ensure the user loyalty of its products in this way. It was also repeatedly mentioned in its founder Mark Shuttleworth's speech, it is even ironic that other operating systems (ChromeOS-Android, Windows-windows phone, and OS X-iOS) experience split between devices. taking the windows RT tablet as an example, Microsoft indeed has advanced concepts and resources. Microsoft proposed the tablet concept earlier than Apple, but Microsoft was reluctant to take the initiative to get started early and catch up late. even since the launch of the RT tablet, its poor performance has left its fans disappointed. Ubantu, which is good at variants, transplantation, open source, and freedom, can be applied more conveniently in various fields and has played a huge burden.

Even so, what about Ubantu depends on the market performance.