Comments on: Canonical Launching Ubuntu One Storage Service

By: Zac

Zac — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:44:16 +0000

dragonbite: Thanks. But, my knowledge is not enough to be an Ubuntu member.

Joe: Thanks for your feedback.

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By: aikiwolfie

aikiwolfie — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:30:02 +0000

“Joe Panettieri Says:
May 12th, 2009 at 4:49 pm

Aikiwolfie: Do you really think the core Canonical user market is home users? Just curious about your reasoning. Seems to me most Ubuntu users are consultants, developers, enthusiasts … but not the traditional “consumer” crowd… True?”

At the end of the day it doesn’t matter who is actually using Ubuntu. Within the Linux community there is an expectation that people who know how to do things with Linux will be happy to jump through all the hoops and vault all the hurdles just to make things work.

Looking at community forums like Ubuntu Forums it’s pretty clear this isn’t the case any longer. Linux OSs are now at the stage where people want to boot-up the PC and get on with life. It’s also pretty clear that when newbies are asking about Linux and how to get into it easily they are pushed in the direction of distributions like Ubuntu.

While some of us like consultants, enthusiasts and developers might know a bit more about the technical workings of Linux. At the same time we’re all asking for an OS that just works. None of us wants to be firing up a terminal session just to mount a CD-ROM or DVD. None of us wants to have to manually edit the xorg.conf just because we have an SLI setup.

What we want is something that “just works”. That is an OS that assumes we have no technical knowledge and that is a consumer targeted OS.

When all you want to do is boot-up and get on with life, you are a consumer. Pure and simple. That is primarily what people want to do with Ubuntu. Even the developers.

The way you get to that ease of use level of perfection is by targeting people who know nothing about how things work.

I think this illustrates the point nicely.

http://lunduke.com/?p=429

By: dragonbite

dragonbite — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:15:07 +0000

@Zac : you can get an @Ubuntu.com email address by becoming an Ubuntu Member. It’s a forwarding address to your regular email address, but still.

By: Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:51:14 +0000

Zac: Thanks for perspectives. I will ask Canonical about their plans for additional online services and report back to you and the WorksWithU community.

By: Zac

Zac — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:33:37 +0000

Been waiting for this, glad to see it happening. I would also like a “ubuntu.com” email address which will be good advertising.

Dropbox user here as well. Dropbox has worked flawlessly for me, and it is very fast also. Very happy with Dropbox.

Not running 9.04 yet so no beta testing for me.

By: Jef Spaleta

Jef Spaleta — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:31:10 +0000

Joe:
Careful…. you need to differentiate between Canonical’s core “customer” market for services and Ubuntu’s “core” user market. They might not actually be the same group on average.

This particular service may very well target more traditional consumer electronics purchasers. I fully expect this to be bundled in with the next generation of Ubuntu OEM netbooks..the ARM based devices and to start showing up in Dell mini purchasing bundles..assuming Dell continues to ship Ubuntu based devices along side Android models.

-jef

By: Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:49:36 +0000

By: aikiwolfie

aikiwolfie — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:01:53 +0000

I’d also like to add Canonical should have been doing this sort of thing a long time ago. Looks like they are finally realising their core market is home users that spend way too much time on the web.

By: aikiwolfie

aikiwolfie — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:00:15 +0000

This new service is an interesting idea. It’ll certainly suit newbies who haven’t learned about shell scripting and mounting remote FTP file systems.

And 2GB of storage for free isn’t exactly a shabby deal. I’m just curious how they fund it? Free on the web normally equals targeted advertising.