How does a South African company go from offering its priceless product to a successful ad software company that promotes to giant companies around the world? The story of Ubuntu is long and interesting, involving Linux, area tourism and now telephony hardware. Lasting 30 days, Ubuntu Edge’s crowdfunding crusade at Indiepasspass is making history by raising the $32 million needed to build a new type of phone and PC from scratch.
Ubuntu Edge is meant to be more than just a phone. The device will start dual between Android and the Ubuntu cellular operating system, and will come to connect a monitor, a mouse and a keyboard. The ultimate purpose is to create a phone that can act as a complete computer.
In a video posted on the fundraising page, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu (and the second largest tourist in the world), puts the Ubuntu Edge in a Formula One racing car. While automakers can use race cars as a control platform for long-term technologies, he said, there is no control platform for telephone technologies.
One of the reasons Ubuntu made the decision to create a cellular operation formula is that teleteletelephone brands are concerned about the number of consumers controlled through Google, Palau said. While teleteleteletlelephone corporations could once sell their own software and monetize their end users after the device was sold to them, Android teleteleteletletelephone users are now almost entirely monetized through the Google Play Store, leaving teleteleletletelephone operators and brands in the cold.
The tizen phone’s operational formula has been emblematic of this will of HTC, Samsung and other phone brands to create an operational formula that they can control. Despite the luxurious meetings and evangelism of the developers, Tizen’s operational formula has not yet been delivered to a device in the United States, and Samsung is increasingly difficult in the world of Tizen.
“The people of Tizen, I think, should not be tied to Google,” Palau said. “They need an alternative. In the past, Tizen has been a smart alternative.
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