Canonical creates its own mobile platform.

Hardly anyone in the world already doubts that the future of personal computers lies in their mobility. At least, just in the last year, several alternatives to existing mobile platforms appeared, which, according to their creators, are intended to be at least alternatives to today's grandees - Android and iOS. So, at the beginning of last year it became known about the open project Tizen , which united the previously lost Meego and LiMo under the wing of the Intel and Linux Foundation. Then, towards the end of the year, rumors about the Mozilla Boot to Gecko project, which was demonstrated at WMC 2012 in the form of an already running system on a smartphone, intensified. And finally, Canonical, the maker of one of the most popular Linux distributions, recently unveiled its product for user mobility, Ubuntu For Android , and announced that by the end of 2013 it will complete the development of its mobile platform specifically designed for smartphones and tablets.

Canonical plans to create Ubuntu-based (Unity can be seen in the screenshot), the senior mobile product strategy manager Richard Collins told a mobile platform. According to him, by the end of next year, the development - while without a name - will be completed, negotiations will be started with the manufacturers of smartphones; while calling the approximate share that the company is going to occupy in the market, Collins does not say, but, nevertheless, notices that the mobile future system is positioned as an alternative to Android.

Canonical plans to make money using the same model as Ubuntu - the support and consultation of smartphone manufacturers, the release of paid updates, etc. Also, based on the existing application infrastructure, it is planned to create an application store - an analogue of the Android Market.
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