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Is Canonical the Next Apple?

Posted by Soulskill on from the three-years-to-success-six-years-to-evil-empire dept.

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."

3 of 511 comments (clear)

  1. Re:First thing they need to do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, the Ubuntu names are much easier to search for because they are less common. I always figured that this was their motive for choosing them. For example, you can type "natty virtualbox" or "lucid virtualbox" and get relevant results quickly and easily, that are zeroed in on what you are looking for.

  2. Re:problem is, Unity is a disaster by Eponymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the record, I am a user who likes Unity. Sounds like I'm the only one though.

  3. Re:problem is, Unity is a disaster by ArcCoyote · · Score: 4, Informative

    log out
    select your account
    select "Ubuntu Classic" from the session menu at the bottom,
    log back in.

    Problem Solved.