My hope and expectation for 2017, is that we'll see Ubuntu for phones being moved to Ubuntu Core and that the desktop gets sufficiently useful that Ubuntu Touch can be renamed Ubuntu Personal. I think that's a really good name and I hope they start using it for phones and tablets by the end of next year, maybe also providing Ubuntu Personal for desktops for those who want a Snap-only PC.
I can't see any reason whatsoever why Canonical would want to pull away from phones. It might not be a great source of income in the near future, but it also shouldn't be particularly expensive to keep going, considering it primarily consists of components that are required in other parts of Ubuntu anyway. If it was a phone-only OS, then people would've had good cause for concern. But I'm completely confident that it'll go on as a healthy, niche project for people who wants something different.
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