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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."

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  1. Re:No. by clang_jangle · · Score: 0, Troll

    TFS is a candidate for "Most Idiotic Slashdot Summary EVAR".

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  2. Re:No. by jedidiah · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is funny.

    One of my biggest frustrations with my most recent current Mac is the fact that there is no transparency when it comes to basic power management features that are mundane and standard even in Linux (namely CPU scaling).

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