Ubuntu plans to enter the mobile market: will the future be better?

During this fall's Ubuntu developer summit, the main questions discussed are: Where will Ubuntu be applied in the future. This topic was answered soon. In November 1, the founder of Ubuntu published a blog post saying that the company plans to push Ubuntu to tablets and smartphones. The message was sent and shocked the mobile world. Another player in the mobile industry has become increasingly competitive. Canonical plans to push Ubuntu to tablets. At the developer summit

During this fall's Ubuntu developer summit, the main questions discussed are: Where will Ubuntu be applied in the future. This topic was answered soon.

In November 1, the founder of Ubuntu published a blog post saying that the company plans to push Ubuntu to tablets and smartphones. The message was sent and shocked the mobile world. Another player in the mobile industry has become increasingly competitive.

Canonical plans to push Ubuntu to tablets and smartphones

At the developer summit, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, said in his speech: Where Ubuntu will land? Today, heat's electronic products are nothing more than desktops, laptops, smartphones, and tablets. The results can be imagined.

Of course, Mark Shuttleworth has his own beautiful ideals. In recent years, Mark has focused on the Unity development project. Unity means the world is unified, so Mark's intention is to unify the human and machine interfaces of all electronic devices to facilitate convenient use. In Mark's view, after a certain period of time, we will see that Ubuntu 12.04 resides on almost all types of consumer electronics. At that time, Ubuntu is everywhere.

Currently, Canonical is expected to win the hearts of developers. Although the mobile field has developed for just a few years, there are already many well-established vendors and they have a very favorable advantage. Therefore, Canonical is expected to succeed, there is still much homework to do.

Some analysts believe that if Ubuntu wants to win the hearts of developers, the most important thing is to win the hearts of hardware manufacturers. He said that there are too many platforms available for developers today, including iPad and Win 8, and they are all very popular tablets, unless Canonical can win around 5 million tablets from the market, developers may not be very interested.

If Ubuntu is to enter the mobile market, it is bound to compete with Android. However, for Ubuntu, although the mobile market is already very competitive, there are always opportunities. After Google acquired Motorola, even HTC considered whether to own its own operating system. With the release of Anroid 4.0, Google abandoned his "bad wife" and chose Samsung. In this way, many vendors that have cooperated with Google have other plans, this is a good opportunity for Ubuntu.

Opportunities and Challenges always coexist. In the face of powerful Android, apple, and Windows 8, Ubuntu is full of challenges, because in the era of desktop operating systems, the mainstream and common operating systems are Microsoft and Apple. As a result, many consumers do not know much about Ubuntu products. Therefore, it is very important to select partners in the early stage.

Ubuntu represents the development of free software. In any case, wait for the Canonical company's entry plan.