[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone issues not good for Ubuntu reputation

[Alan Bell]

It is a bit of an odd launch, but I have fairly low expectations. We 
were in the first batch but don't have handsets yet, probably confused 
them by ordering two rather than one so they will have to think about 
how to package it. I am trying hard not to compare it with any kind of 
Apple launch and I have never really observed any android device launch, 
I just go to the shop and buy one if I want one. I think we just don't 
see distance selling product launches and our expectations are formed by 
Apple stuff and Amazon pre-orders for books and DVDs where the order 
turns up in the post on the launch date. If you think of it as a month 
of occasional pre-orders for an launch date of today(ish) then it 
suddenly seems massively more reasonable - they just called what was 
actually the start of pre-orders the "launch date".

I think the problem for me is that whilst I had very low expectations 
around logistics, I had higher expectations of what I can do on the 
platform with web apps. The web app API documentation has been pulled 
(API and Cookbook links on 
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/web/ubuntu-webapps-guide/) and that 
whole chunk of platform integration functionality is deprecated/missing 
for remote web apps and reserved for locally installed HTML5 
applications, which wasn't really what I was expecting so I am trying to 
drag my expectations down to the new reality.

Alan.