<div dir="ltr">Where did you get a Nexus 4 for $150??</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:51 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hugh@mimosa.com" target="_blank">hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">| From: Lennart Sorensen <<a href="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org">lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org</a>><br>
| To: <a href="mailto:tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org">tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</a><br>
| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:58:52 -0400<br>
| Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Ubuntu Edge<br>
| Reply-To: <a href="mailto:tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org">tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</a><br>
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| On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:52:10AM -0400, David Mason wrote:<br>
| > Cool phone, idea, and video. They're almost 1/4 of the way to their<br>
| > corwdfunding goal!<br>
| ><br>
| > <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge" target="_blank">http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge</a><br>
| ><br>
| > I have a big investment in the iOS world, but I'm definitely tempted.<br>
<br>
</div>I haven't studied this closesly since I wrote it off early, but I'll<br>
explain why.<br>
<br>
What is the innovation here?<br>
- sexy new hardware<br>
- sexy old/new OS<br>
<br>
Attmepting two innovations at once severely reduces your chances of<br>
success (or reduces your risk tolerance in each innovation, an<br>
unfortunate thing).<br>
<br>
What's interesting about each?<br>
<br>
Sexy new hardware: stated goal is to make it capable of being your<br>
desktop, when plugged into stuff like a monitor and keyboard. That's<br>
interesting to me. Motorola tried that and failed.<br>
<br>
Everything else appears to be the same goals as many other handset<br>
makers are striving for, and doing well. I don't think that I have to<br>
front the risk to make this happen, it will anyway.<br>
<br>
Sexy old/new OS: Shuttleworth is an interesting guy. He's on a very<br>
different value-system from me. I don't like where Ubuntu has been<br>
going and I imagine that the phone will only be more off-track.<br>
<br>
Will the Linux we're comfortable be any more visible on Ubuntu for<br>
phones than on Adroid?<br>
<br>
A project closer to my heart was the Neo FreeRunner. We all know how<br>
that turned out.<br>
<br>
How about Replicant? I've not followed that, but it seems<br>
interesting.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
| Hmm I looked at it and had some issues with the design:<br>
|<br>
| Screen resolution too low<br>
<br>
</div>"Resolution" is ambiguous these days. As you later said: not enough<br>
pixels on the screen. You didn't object to the pixel density.<br>
<br>
I guess it would be great for a phone right now. But phones seem to<br>
get stale within a couple of years. And this phone is still perhaps a<br>
year out.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
| It has Ubuntu on it<br>
<br>
</div>Interesting to have Ubuntu. Not good enough to invest a lot of time<br>
into.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
| It has Android on it<br>
<br>
</div>I've forgotten which of the many possible objections you might have<br>
are central. Would Replicant address some of them?<br>
<br>
The mobile phone culture is really wrong for me. The default<br>
expectation of massive information leaks is horrible. It would be<br>
great if there was an alternative that was mainstream. Ubuntu's<br>
behaviour suggests they are part of the problem, not the solution.<br>
<br>
I love (some) mobile phone hardware. I just bought a Nexus 4 phone<br>
for somelthing like $150, no commitment. That's awesome. 1280x768<br>
isn't good enough for Lennart. It's good enough for me, at least for<br>
now. I intend to discover if it is all I need to carry<br>
when I leave the house.<br>
<br>
I think the saddest lack of pixels is in notebooks. Mainstream<br>
netbooks had significantly fewer (1024x600) than my new phone. Most<br>
other notebooks are 1366x768. Yuck. Only the 15" MacBook Pro with<br>
Retina display (2880x1800; $2199) beats my Nexus 10 tablet<br>
(2560x1200; $409).<br>
<br>
My tastes may differ from the mainstream. I see very little mention<br>
of the Nexus 10 in Kijiji which suggests few were bought<br>
(alternatively: few are unloved).<br>
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