To me this seems more like a way to divert Ubuntu desktop developers to the phablet development. If you don't have to worry about getting out another Ubuntu release in 6 months or 6 months after that, you can spend more of your time working on the phablet stuff which, as they said, needs to get done in the next 6-8 months. Same goes for the UDC switch from physical to virtual... more phablet development hours become available.
Ubuntu discussing moving to LTS + rolling release model
Posted Mar 2, 2013 17:36 UTC (Sat) by andrewsomething (subscriber, #53527)
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That does seem to be the sub-text...
Ugh
Posted Mar 4, 2013 13:43 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
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"Phablet"... Is that a word? Ugh, it doesn't even look cool. In any case, according to the wikipedia article it is supposed to refer to a device between a phone and a tablet, not to the combination of phones + tablets as you seem to imply (the target of Canonical's efforts).