Comments on: Ubuntu and Android make for a mobile one-two punch http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/ubuntu-and-android-make-for-a-mobile-one-two-punch/ Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lestibournes http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/ubuntu-and-android-make-for-a-mobile-one-two-punch/#comment-817393 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:00:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=487596#comment-817393 When it comes to the absolute vast majority of apps on Ubuntu, they are open source and compiled and packaged by the Ubuntu community. It would be up to Canonical and the Ubuntu community to provide them for ARM. It’s the handful of closed-source software that could be a problem if developers refuse to port to ARM, but then that software doesn’t seem to be the most important as most of it is games.

]]> By: fab http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/ubuntu-and-android-make-for-a-mobile-one-two-punch/#comment-812226 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:23:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=487596#comment-812226 option4: get rid of apple products and support these technologies!

]]> By: Devajyoti Barman http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/ubuntu-and-android-make-for-a-mobile-one-two-punch/#comment-812026 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:58:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=487596#comment-812026 Is it not like the Motorola Atrix?

]]> By: John http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/ubuntu-and-android-make-for-a-mobile-one-two-punch/#comment-811946 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:33:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=487596#comment-811946 Option2: take an 11″ air, remove the keyboard, move all other ports to the screen, the hit the shrink button as much as possible. Allow this to be docked, and then sell for the same price as an asus transformer.
Or even better, take a Mac mini and add a battery and a small screen, delete extra drive bay and reduce the disk to the same SSD as in the air 8)

The issue with these is the OS. Even though Linux maybe cross platform, but not all x86 apps are going to compile well for ARM without major work.

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/ubuntu-and-android-make-for-a-mobile-one-two-punch/#comment-811935 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:43:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=487596#comment-811935 Great news, Chris. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Kevin N http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/ubuntu-and-android-make-for-a-mobile-one-two-punch/#comment-811915 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:37:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=487596#comment-811915 I was wondering about this. But Chris, aren’t the vast majority of compiled apps compiled for x86? I can see this being really interesting when Intel has competitive (in performance and battery life) smartphone chips. Until then, do we depend on developers to port to ARM? Or is that automated somehow?

]]> By: Chris Kenyon http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/ubuntu-and-android-make-for-a-mobile-one-two-punch/#comment-811910 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:50:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=487596#comment-811910 Kevin, Any of the 2500 + apps compiled for Ubuntu can be installed on a phone in this configuration.

App developers who need guidance on how to do this can learn more at http://developer.ubuntu.com/.

Chris Kenyon

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