[ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Surface Release, Will there be something similar from Ubuntu?

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 12:57:24 UTC 2012


On 25 June 2012 12:18, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:
> Now that Microsoft have announced they will release a new tablet running
> Windows 8, this would be a good time for Canonical to put together a tablet
> running Ubuntu.
>
> Does Canonical have any plans to do this? So long as it was competitively
> priced, it could do really well, and especially if it can run Android apps
> as well. (The Blackberry PlayBook can run some Android apps even though its
> OS is QNX-based.)

I think a simpler approach might be to make a port of "Ubuntu for
Android" available for some of the Android tablets on the market now.
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android

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