On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 15:41 -0700, Brian Cluff wrote:

That makes a lot more sense than a single interface to spread across all 
devices.  That just seems to me that the very best you can come up with 
is something that will be described as on avarage as "not completely 
horrible" across all devices.  That doesn't sound very good to me (I'm 
talking to you Windows and Ubuntu). :)

I'll bite :-)

I do think that it is about making them feel similar, and have common ways of doing things. That of course means not having a task bar at the bottom and a popup menu in the left corner. Which seems to be the only way Linux users want to work :-) In general, there's gonna have to be changes from everyone as we end up with a continuum of devices, but I imagine that only professionals will have dedicated "computers" in the future.

I randomly ran into a Ubuntu Phone user who noticed my hat and asked if I had seen the phone. When I asked some more questions of her she mentioned that the reason she liked the phone was because it worked the same way as her desktop, which meant she had to remember less and could be more productive. Only one data point, but a rather surprising one coming out of the blue.

Ted