Investigating ‘Convert’, Ubuntu Touch-style Future for their Mobile OS

Investigating ‘Convert’, Ubuntu Touch-style Future for their Mobile OS
Ubuntu’s goal to run one OS across multiple devices is forward thinking – so much so that it seems other operating systems are now keen to get in on the act.
CEO Thorsten Heins, in an interview with ABC, has revled that the company are investigating ways to power laptops and tablets from a -powered smartphone.
Sound familiar?
If you’re a regular rder of this site, or just erally don’t live under a rock, then this multi device, single-computing concept will be. Canonical, Ubuntu’s financial backers, also have an aim to power tablets, , s and desktop using a sole OS – Ubuntu. Their goal is to have the same running on ch device, but with its interface automatically adapting to suit the screen-size and form-factor.
Admittedly Canonical/Ubuntu are not the first company to explore the id of computing converce. Google, whose Android OS runs on , Tablets and s, and possibly soon powering the base of Chrome OS, are exploring their own pseudo-convert story. But it’s fractured implementation is, perhaps, not as elegant a solution as that proposed by Canonical with Ubuntu.
But do stand a chance should they follow a convert strategy?While details are scant right now, the company will be providing more details on their plans at World in May. But, plucky courage aside, history doesn’t bode well for them.
gave Android converce a spin with their dockable-line of Atrix devices (which didn’t take off); and mooted it with their Galaxy Note II (originally planned to ‘convert’ into a desktop PC when docked). It’s only , with their bulky PadFone concept, that sits as the sole semi-successful attempt at bringing unified computing to the masses.
, with 8, have also attempted to bridge common ground between desktop and tablet computers.
Sidenote
At January’s press unveiling of the Ubuntu Phone I over-hrd a discussion concerning and Ubuntu Touch. From the snatch I hrd it seems that several of Ubuntu Touch’s original designers were subsequently hired by RIM (now known as ‘’) to work on 10.
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