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The Goal of Canonical

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Was it the goal of Canonical/Ubuntu to come out with a concept similar to Apple having one's Ubuntu Desktop sync with ones Ubuntu iPhone and Ubuntu iPad and having the Ubuntu iCloud?
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michael louwe

Re: The Goal of Canonical

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tweetybird wrote: Sat Jan 05, 2019 6:08 am Was it the goal of Canonical/Ubuntu to come out with a concept similar to Apple having one's Ubuntu Desktop sync with ones Ubuntu iPhone and Ubuntu iPad and having the Ubuntu iCloud?
No. Apple's business model is mainly to make money from selling sleek hardware and software that are tightly controlled. It's like making money from selling luxury sports-cars and hand-bags.

Canonical Inc/Ubuntu makes money mostly from support services revenue, similar to Red Hat Inc/RHEL. ....... https://www.ubuntu.com/support/plans-and-pricing
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... EOY31May18 - Canonical Pulled In $110 Million, Down To ~440 Employees During Their Last Fiscal Year - Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 4 January 2019
....... Some money may be made by selling Ubuntu as the preinstalled OS, eg Dell computers preinstalled with Ubuntu. ... Companies that want to run Ubuntu Server LTS for more than 5 years, ie past the free EOL date, will have to pay for extended support.
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Re: The Goal of Canonical

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michael louwe wrote: Sat Jan 05, 2019 7:34 am
tweetybird wrote: Sat Jan 05, 2019 6:08 am Was it the goal of Canonical/Ubuntu to come out with a concept similar to Apple having one's Ubuntu Desktop sync with ones Ubuntu iPhone and Ubuntu iPad and having the Ubuntu iCloud?
No. Apple's business model is mainly to make money from selling sleek hardware and software that are tightly controlled. It's like making money from selling luxury sports-cars and hand-bags.
In this one sentence, you have summed up the whole of Apple's post-iPod-era business strategy. (As someone who bought and used Macs since 1986, I remember when this didn't used to be the case.)
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