This is Ubuntu's "Bada" move - it is scared of being assimilated by Android that it is forgetting that it can truly innovate in the UX and not by building walled gardens around display managers.
Ubuntu already has significant investment in Surfaceflinger/Android via its Touch vertical. It has also started migrating to QT/QML for its shell (which work really well on Android). There is a significant opportunity to innovate on UX (like Blackberry Z10), rather than throw away the ecosystem that would come with adopting an Android core.
Yesterday, I couldnt join a GoToMeeting using Ubuntu. But just after, I did it in less than 2 minutes by using an app oumy Android device. That is a huge ecosystem, that I want to use on my desktop (I dont know how the desktop UX for a touch app will work, but I hope it will).
I say that Ubuntu, Google and Valve should sit together and come up with a graphics+sound backend that will work together. And let me play Half Life 3 on my phone and desktop simultaneously !
Ubuntu already has significant investment in Surfaceflinger/Android via its Touch vertical. It has also started migrating to QT/QML for its shell (which work really well on Android). There is a significant opportunity to innovate on UX (like Blackberry Z10), rather than throw away the ecosystem that would come with adopting an Android core.
Yesterday, I couldnt join a GoToMeeting using Ubuntu. But just after, I did it in less than 2 minutes by using an app oumy Android device. That is a huge ecosystem, that I want to use on my desktop (I dont know how the desktop UX for a touch app will work, but I hope it will).
I say that Ubuntu, Google and Valve should sit together and come up with a graphics+sound backend that will work together. And let me play Half Life 3 on my phone and desktop simultaneously !