Is Canonical the Next Apple?

An anonymous reader writes "With the release of 11.04 Natty Narwhal, Canonical is taking Ubuntu in a new direction, which puts cloud services and content like music at the forefront of the Ubuntu experience. Ubuntu is no longer 'Linux,' or 'desktop' or 'netbook'; it's just Ubuntu for clients and servers. Ubuntu has its own desktop in Unity, app store (Software Center), music service and personal cloud. If Ubuntu takes off, will it make Canonical the next Apple? Of course, Canonical doesn't sell computers, but then again Ubuntu can be used on any computer, even Macs."

Comments

First thing they need to do

[Moryath]

is start picking better names for their releases.

Compare - Apple side: "Kodiak", "Cheetah", "Puma", "Jaguar", "Panther", "Tiger", "Leopard", "Snow Leopard."

with - Ubuntu side: "Warty Warthog", "Hoary Hedgehog", "Breezy Badger", "Dapper Drake", "Edgy Eft", "Feisty Fawn", "Gutsy Gibbon", "Hardy Heron", "Intrepid Ibex", "Jaunty Jackalope", "Karmic Koala", "Lucid Lynx", "Maverick Meerkat", "Natty Narwhal", "Oneric Ocelot"...

The Apple side is short, and carries images of animals all well-reputed and seen as powerful and respected predators.

The Ubuntu side sounds like the cast list from a crappy saturday morning cartoon show.

Just sayin'...
 

Re:First thing they need to do

[jo42]

"Gracious Goatse".

Re:First thing they need to do

[mangu]

I think you mean "Gaping Goatse".

So...

[Anonymous Coward]

Is Mahatma Gandhi the next Hitler?

Good

[MonsterTrimble]

If Ubuntu takes off, will it make Canonical the next Apple?

We can only hope. Unity is GPL, as is the vast majority of the Linux ecosphere. If Ubuntu becomes as big as (i)OSX and Win7 everybody in the linux community will gain a tremendous amount. Drivers, support, money - it will all get exponentially better for us.

Re:Yup, marketing

[initdeep]

leave teh GIMP alone!!!!!

Oh wait, you're serious

[davidbrit2]

Let me laugh even harder.