<story><title>Ubuntu 17.04 review</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/ubuntu-17-04-review-this-is-unitys-true-swan-song/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamescostian</author><text>I never understood why Canonical&amp;#x27;s attempts to be &amp;quot;brave&amp;quot; (as Apple would call it) result in Canonical pulling out, while attempts by other companies like Apple don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;For example, Canonical made a very brave decision to switch to Unity, and now they&amp;#x27;re having to move away from Unity, which hints that there were enough users against it, and they pushed Canonical into this position (along with Canonical trying to allocate resources better).&lt;p&gt;But Apple &amp;quot;killed skeuomorphism&amp;quot; and there were tons of people complaining &amp;quot;MY NOTES APP WHITE INSTEAD OF YELLOW EWWW&amp;quot; (especially my parents), yet today they&amp;#x27;re still getting more users and they have so many on recent versions of their OSes. I supported the removal of skeuomorphism, but seeing so many around me and on the internet complain, I thought Apple would be forced to put it back everywhere. Instead, people just moved on.&lt;p&gt;When Apple makes a &amp;quot;pro&amp;quot; laptop without any USB A ports, people laugh, but then buy it. When Ubuntu makes a phone, Ubuntu regrets it. Why?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addicted</author><text>Apple&amp;#x27;s user base is one that wants Apple to do all their thinking for them as far as computer decisions are concerned. Often this may lead to sub optimal solutions for them, but they are ok with this because the overall lack of worry with Apple products, and the fact that they have a good track record of making good decisions, still leaves them ahead in the net (this may be changing with pro Macs though).&lt;p&gt;Linux users, OTOH, have an opinion on everything. Worse, a vocal minority is simply anti anything that is popular, which means Ubuntu&amp;#x27;s goals were entirely in conflict with this segment of their base.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ubuntu 17.04 review</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/ubuntu-17-04-review-this-is-unitys-true-swan-song/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamescostian</author><text>I never understood why Canonical&amp;#x27;s attempts to be &amp;quot;brave&amp;quot; (as Apple would call it) result in Canonical pulling out, while attempts by other companies like Apple don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;For example, Canonical made a very brave decision to switch to Unity, and now they&amp;#x27;re having to move away from Unity, which hints that there were enough users against it, and they pushed Canonical into this position (along with Canonical trying to allocate resources better).&lt;p&gt;But Apple &amp;quot;killed skeuomorphism&amp;quot; and there were tons of people complaining &amp;quot;MY NOTES APP WHITE INSTEAD OF YELLOW EWWW&amp;quot; (especially my parents), yet today they&amp;#x27;re still getting more users and they have so many on recent versions of their OSes. I supported the removal of skeuomorphism, but seeing so many around me and on the internet complain, I thought Apple would be forced to put it back everywhere. Instead, people just moved on.&lt;p&gt;When Apple makes a &amp;quot;pro&amp;quot; laptop without any USB A ports, people laugh, but then buy it. When Ubuntu makes a phone, Ubuntu regrets it. Why?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jedd</author><text>There was a lovely TV show from the UK back in the 1980&amp;#x27;s called Yes Prime Minister - one of the frequent exchanges between the senior public servant, and the PM, when the former wanted the latter to back down on something, was for the phrase &amp;#x27;That&amp;#x27;s very brave of you ...&amp;#x27; to be uttered.  Brave does not necessarily imply profound, good, worthwhile, etc.   Canonical&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;brave decision&amp;#x27; to go out and create their own DE (despite two very competent options already existing) does not imply it was a good decision.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; When Apple makes a &amp;quot;pro&amp;quot; laptop without any USB A ports, people laugh, but then buy it.&lt;p&gt;This is the classic mixup of &amp;#x27;people&amp;#x27;.  The people that scoffed at a laptop with a single USB port (or a phone without a headphone jack, etc etc) are NOT the same people that bought those items.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; When Ubuntu makes a phone, Ubuntu regrets it.&lt;p&gt;The proverbial 800lb gorilla made a phone, and also regretted it.  There are plenty of propositions explaining why two mobile phone platforms were all that the market could sustain.</text></comment>