Ubuntu for Tablet PCs unveiled

Unity (not the GUI) is what everyone has to aspire to, Ubuntu have their heads on straight with this.

Dear Google, you are fragmented, you'll see you are :p
 
The video makes it look pretty impressive but really that can only work like that if you go ubuntu on everything. I highly doubt they they've come up with the best phone OS, best media player, best tablet OS while imo they haven't even got desktop right yet. It looks like they are going places though.
 
Great to see them steamrolling ahead. Must say though, I'm a little disappointed that the HTC rumors were incorrect :mad:
 
can't wait to see this in action, when/if it has basic terminal in home screen I'm happey.
 
Someone send that dude a razor and the number of a hair stylist.
 
South African innovation at its best. I can see Ubuntu slowly creeping up on the more established players. Good luck to Ubuntu!
 
This almost wanna make me install Ubuntu again....almost.

Good thing is that its Linux so there will be no shortage of forks :D
 
I really am excited about this. Beautiful and simple. I really hope that this succeeds, more competition and more choice is always good for us as the consumer.
 
I think everyone saw this coming the moment Unity was unveiled. That nonsense has no place on a desktop.

Kubuntu FTW.
 
Compton_effect said:
I wasn't going to mention it, but yeah. He's just missing a few gold chains.
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I just feel he's the head of a company and representing his brand. He could make a bit of effort to be more presentable, nothing extreme required. Right now he looks a bit rough/tacky to me, it's not like he's at a developers convention where it's fine.

Talking about gold chains I saw this jhb lebanese roid bunny type dude with unbuttoned shirt the other day with a gold chain that would make Mr T envious. Thing was about 20mm wide and 3-4mm thick :eek:
 
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Great idea but they have a long way to go and a very challenging road ahead to even getting into the market.

Until most of business starts using opensource (i.e. e.g. OpenOffice and the like), all of the integration counts for nothing.

Most people I know buy PCs for business and for many, the PC is the cornerstone of their computing needs.

The one time I went open source software I lived to regret it as I coudn't do my work on any other PC. My experience with OpenOffice was a real headache for me. Thats when I understood what Microsoft's dominance of enterprise software means.

Since then, anything other than Microsoft I shy from. To me, it is money wasted, especially if on a tight budget.

It is only a matter of time before the meaning of a fully integrated Microsoft software and device ecosystem starts to kick in and this means an up hill battle for alternatives like Ubuntu. I also believe Android's smartphone dominance is threatened by this and BlackBerry's comeback too (especially with BB not having a third screen, i.e. PCs). With its overly priced products and marketing magic spells Apple will always have its faithfuls - the 'elite' groups.
 
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