>Convergence so far has never been approached well. the closest I saw was The Ubuntu Mobile experience, but It relied on >USB video and experience too much to ever become what it could have been. I think just creating a secure data exchange >between desktop and laptop so that your mobile devices becomes a "Userspace" mirror would be far more valuable. then >build applications that are specific to each physical platform that can then interact with that communal data would be a >success. so far nobody has really embraced that. Honestly what I want to see is a universal dock for my phone or tablet that I can use regardless of device. Plug my device in via the USB input, and the dock acts as both a video output and a USB/Bluetooth hub for keyboard and mouse input. Thats essentially what the DeX Station, the upcoming dock for the Galaxy S8, will do. I want that, without having to buy a new phone. http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/mobile-accessories/phones/dex-station---black-ee-mg950tbegus/ > ​Microsoft is actually building their Os and applications stack in such a way that Application developers no long >have to develop for the hardware platform, simply to .NET core. that will then do all the work to move the >application between x86 or ARM. they have quite a few ARM devices. They have been trying to do this for years since the Windows 8 days (or earlier). Hopefully it works this time. Too bad its not a feasible approach for Linux and Android though. On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:05 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > The Ubuntu mobile UI was a nice platform to work with in a tablet or phone > interface, but the application ecosystem was horrifying to deal with. I am > sorry a slapped together wrapper for someone's website is not an app. It is > a bastardized browser experience that is worse than just using a browser. > And combine that with no core applications aside from the ones developed by > the OS team. Its death is not surprising, but it did make me sad. > > Convergence so far has never been approached well. the closest I saw was > The Ubuntu Mobile experience, but It relied on USB video and experience too > much to ever become what it could have been. I think just creating a secure > data exchange between desktop and laptop so that your mobile devices > becomes a "Userspace" mirror would be far more valuable. then build > applications that are specific to each physical platform that can then > interact with that communal data would be a success. so far nobody has > really embraced that. > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Matthew Crews > wrote: > > Good riddance to Unity. That was essentially an unnecessary fork of Gnome > with polarizing opinions (on top of the polarizing opinions of Gnome). I > think shifting back to Gnome 3 is the right decision in the long run > (especially since Debian uses Gnome 3). That said there are features of > Unity I like, but not many. > > Where do you see that Mir is going away? Not seeing it in the article. > That said, I again agree that Mir is unnecessary when we have Wayland. > > Ubuntu phone was, in my opinion, as DOA as Firefox OS and Tizen, and > Windows Phone. > > Tablets...i have very strong opinions about tablets that you can poke me > about later. > > Microsoft can't even get convergence right with Windows 10, and they have > the money to do it, but then again this is Microsoft we are talking about. > Android/Chrome OS are going to be closest we get (and it appears to largely > be successful in Samsung's Galaxy S8, app support notwithstanding). > > > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 1:28 PM Brian Cluff wrote: > > > https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/ > > It's sad to see so much development get scrapped and I really wanted to > see a sucsessful ubuntu phone, but I can't help but to think that this > will ultimately be a good thing. > > Brian Cluff > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss