<div dir="ltr">If a free (libre) smartphone is your interest, the place to be is the GTA04 community (<a href="http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/">http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/</a>).<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:50 PM Fòram na Gàidhlig <<a href="mailto:fios@foramnagaidhlig.net">fios@foramnagaidhlig.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br class="gmail_msg">
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Canonical is axing the developement of the phone and tablet:<br class="gmail_msg">
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<a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/</a><br class="gmail_msg">
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Same story as with what Mozilla did to us: We spent years developing a<br class="gmail_msg">
phone, localizing and creating a keyboard and a couple 100$ on devices<br class="gmail_msg">
out of our private purses for testing, only for the project to be axed<br class="gmail_msg">
before it had a chance to take off, because the "Internet of Things"<br class="gmail_msg">
seems to be more attractive.<br class="gmail_msg">
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We can also forget about getting our languages on iOS or Android,<br class="gmail_msg">
because the manufacturers will decide which language are allowed on each<br class="gmail_msg">
phone, not the user. So, if you're not one of the big 10-20 who happen<br class="gmail_msg">
to be living in the wrong country, tough luck.<br class="gmail_msg">
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After Adaptxt was axed and we had to move to Swiftkey, iOS isn't even<br class="gmail_msg">
allowing our keyboard locale.<br class="gmail_msg">
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So, this is another VERY BLACK day for our languages, and a sad day for<br class="gmail_msg">
all those developers who spent so much effort into giving us a free (as<br class="gmail_msg">
in freedom) phone.<br class="gmail_msg">
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I hope this mail reaches the powers that be.<br class="gmail_msg">
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GunChleoc<br class="gmail_msg">
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