14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical’s ultimate goal is to achieve full convergence on all the devices, regardless of whether Ubuntu is running on a PC, a tablet, or a mobile phone, and Mark Shuttleworth and the developers think that they can do a better job than Windows and Microsoft.
The Ubuntu developers have been working hard to get this idea of total convergence working on a core level for a few years, but they are not the only ones who are trying to do it. If you take a closer look at the work of other companies, like Microsoft and Apple, you will see that Windows and iOS are both driving in the same direction, of total convergence.
Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, is probably one of the first people to talk about convergence, and he feels that Ubuntu will be able to provide a better experience than what Microsoft is trying and, better yet, it will be free.
“We are not alone in doing this. If you look at Windows 8 for example, there’s a lot of work happening on the proprietary side, to make convergence possible, but I think that what we’ve got is pretty special. These apps seem to me better than what I see happening on the Windows front and that’s something that we should be really proud of,” said Mark Shuttleworth during the keynote for the Ubuntu Developer Summit.
If Canonical maintains this high development pace it, the convergence that Mark Shuttleworth is talking about will be here a lot earlier than anything made by Microsoft or Apple, for that matter.