Ubuntu's window buttons to stay on the left

Posted Apr 12, 2010 2:36 UTC (Mon) by jbailey (guest, #16890)
In reply to: Ubuntu's window buttons to stay on the left by Baylink
Parent article: Ubuntu's window buttons to stay on the left

While I don't think that Shuttleworth is as capable as Jobs at designing beautiful UIs, predictions of Ubuntu shortly losing are laughable at best. I don't think there's any one else in the Desktop Linux space that has a complete offering (OEM deals, support, etc).

In the absence of any competition, they have a captive market. While they are tweaking UIs and learning how best to serve customers through experimentation, anyone else has to go through the relationship building stage that Canonical has already completed.

It could be much worse. We could be stuck with whatever default UIs are being provided with no one trying for a good experience. I think we're better off for the work that they're doing, despite and because of the bumps in the road that they'll hit.

Ubuntu's window buttons to stay on the left

Posted Apr 12, 2010 3:59 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

It should be noted that, you don't need competition to make a product fail and lack of competition might be because simply might be not enough profit on the desktop market for the business ventures to be successful. Nobody has shown otherwise. Maybe proprietary services tied to the desktop is Canonical's answer. I would hope that wouldn't be the case.