On 01/12/2012 04:50 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On Thursday 12 January 2012 21:40:30 Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
On 01/12/2012 03:35 PM, Rony wrote:
On 01/10/2012 05:02 PM, Rigved Rakshit wrote:
Hi,
Reading all the online articles about Ubuntu TV, it is clear that it
will ship by the end of the year and will be available in US, China and
UK (mostly). Even though Canonical are not saying much about other
countries, what are the chances that we will get to see a Ubuntu TV in
India any time soon?
Check this out:
http://www.muktware.com/news/3190/lets-watch-ubuntu-tv-right-now
The question is available on what? Who is going to put Ubuntu TV on
their hardware? People buy TV by brand and features. We have a 3D
Samsung Smart TV and when we go to the market we see LG, Panasonic,
Toshiba, Philips, Sony and Samsung. All these are putting Androids on
their TVs (Samsung is using Bada I guess). Canonical has failed with
Music, Cloud and Tablets. I doubt Ubuntu TV will succeed. The company is
ignoring what real users want and is overjoyed by the the fans which is
OMGUbuntu and is making all the wrong moves. Unless the company cracks a
deal with all of these major players, I don't see a future of Ubuntu TV.
Who is going to by XYZ china made TV?
Chinese android mobile clone sales outstripped all other phone sales combined.
Google never signed up any of these manufacturers.
Who is going to but china tvs?. The same guys who buy unbranded desktops, or
shirts, or whatever. The guy who looks for value rather than a T& A show.
Just back from a visit to Ranchi. There are more brands that I never ever
heard of on sale, than all the ads for branded stuff combined.
The world is a lot bigger than the branded cesspool.
"Google never signed up any of these manufacturers."
And just how is Canonical going to profit from this? Google doesn't mind
as these Android devices link to its services thus create a market.
Ubuntu doesn't have anything to monetize from other than charge licence
fee. I don't think Shuttleworth is going to TV for charity.
Swa
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