<story><title>Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence</title><url>https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gshulegaard</author><text>I may be a minority, but I am very saddened by this.  Not because I have any particular love for Unity, but rather I share Mark&amp;#x27;s conviction that convergence is the future.&lt;p&gt;Love or hate it but Unity was IMO the best shot we had at getting an open source unified phone, tablet and desktop experience...and now this is effectively Canonical not only shutting down Unity, but refocusing efforts away from convergence and towards more traditional market segments.  I mourn the death of this innovative path.&lt;p&gt;That said, hopefully this convergence with GNOME will eventually lead back to convergence...but for now that dream is dead it would seem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daveguy</author><text>&lt;i&gt;data convergence&lt;/i&gt; is the future, not &lt;i&gt;interface convergence&lt;/i&gt;. I think they made a serious mistake conflating the two.&lt;p&gt;You should be able to shift your view of a document from a desktop to a laptop, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean the fundamental interface from one should be shoe-horned into the other.&lt;p&gt;That could mean a phone that is docked, but when you have 10x the screen real estate, a keyboard and a mouse the interface should be different when docked vs when not docked.</text></comment>
<story><title>Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence</title><url>https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gshulegaard</author><text>I may be a minority, but I am very saddened by this.  Not because I have any particular love for Unity, but rather I share Mark&amp;#x27;s conviction that convergence is the future.&lt;p&gt;Love or hate it but Unity was IMO the best shot we had at getting an open source unified phone, tablet and desktop experience...and now this is effectively Canonical not only shutting down Unity, but refocusing efforts away from convergence and towards more traditional market segments.  I mourn the death of this innovative path.&lt;p&gt;That said, hopefully this convergence with GNOME will eventually lead back to convergence...but for now that dream is dead it would seem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rlpb</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m with you. I&amp;#x27;d like a fully free software stack across my personal devices, and I also thought that Ubuntu had the best chance of achieving this. I think the issue is in a business model that would work for Canonical.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, most of the hard work is done. My Ubuntu Phone mostly works. The stack is complete. I&amp;#x27;d love to see interested people taking that code and keeping it going. I&amp;#x27;d spend spare time on contributing if this were to happen.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m a Canonical employee and Ubuntu developer, but not on the convergence&amp;#x2F;desktop&amp;#x2F;phone side, and my opinions here are my own and not that of my employer)</text></comment>