Ubuntu phone sold out half a million in about an hour

Ubuntu phone sold out half a million in about an hour

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The Ubuntu phone flash sale of about half million units seems to have sold out in an hour. That inclusive of a NGIX server crash during the middle of the flash sale. Around 12,000 orders per minute selling at $190 per transaction. They earned nearly $100 million in that hour.

The magic of open source products.

Anyone can train up in free open source software and make gadgets and sell.

Canonical and BQ are doing it in the middle of a recession. With figures like $100 million being banded about, the only thing stopping anyone else doing their own thing is education in all things open source and Linux.

Participation has always been free.

The UK should rip up many of its failed proprietary computer science and industrial education and go flat out on open source education and participation as a way to making tons of money from Linux and open source projects.

Dual Core A20 1.2GHz ARM CPU hits $7 but no UK engineers to make products

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Probably a lot cheaper than this elsehwere.

But the real issue now is what to do with it?

Linux revenue stream is $2 trillion.

Some 20 million gadgets sold PER DAY with Linux inside. The likes of flat TV, routers, IP Webcams, HD players, MP3, MP4, MP5 players / recorders, DVD players, printers, Android Phones etc all have Linux inside.

The only way to capitalize on this mega revenue stream is to have trained Linux engineers ready to make products to hand.

But UK has none.

Thanks to listening to trolls who don't want UK engineers to gon on the prowl doing some real engineering and making products with a difference and making some real money.

The UK has may be a less than a hundred out of the few thousand electronics engineers graduating a year that can grasp this opportunity and make money with it.

But it shouldn't be like that. We are in a recession. We should be spending money on training Linux engineers.

So the right thing to be doing is training vast armies of Linux engineers so that they can go tap into those Linux revenue streams by making products.

Projects like Raspberry Pi don't really train anyone to take a big chip such the A20 CPU and make a product with it, and sell it, and make money.

To make it happen good engineers needed. It reality it means running software such as KiCAD and drawing circuit boards, making circuit boards, making Uboot work, and making the A20 boot an OS like Ubuntu Linaro and compile and/or install some decent packages like Apache, Gambas3, gcc and so on.

If you don't know how to do all that, you can't tap into the the $2 trillion Linux revenue stream.

Very few academics available to do this kind of training.

The business secretary and government as a whole need to wake up and face reality.

UK needs to fund more Linux specific education

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Linux is found in at least 2 billion+ devices that got sold last year. Everything sold in the high street with electronics has Linux inside it. Flat TV, routers, MP3, MP4, MP5 players, IP webcams, HD players, HD recorders, set top boxes, freeview boxes, sat navs, Android phones (which own 87% of global smartphone and tablet markets), etc.

If UK government wants UK engineers to tap into the trillion dollars of Linux facilitated revenue, then it needs to spend more of its time and energy training up engineers.

Shamelessly collecting taxes from technology companies that have done the right things and tapped into the Linux revenue stream is not a good plan. The correct plan is to know that there is such a thing as Linux, recognise it for its huge revenue potential because it is in most electronic products sold in the high street, and Linux has growth, and then push the education system to turn out more engineers that know their Linux to go tapping into more Linux revenues. The market for Linux gadgets is already growing, and will continue to grow in leaps and bounds over the years. So any investment made now will be fruitful for decades to come.

Even arranging for 1 day to 1 week courses for admins to be sent by their companies to train them in to Linux is good enough an investment to start the ball rolling. And then publicise it big time with subsidies to go with the offer and you know people will start turning up.

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Ubuntu phone unboxing.

7 minute video.

First 2 minutes are about the box. Next 1.5 minutes is the phone booting. Last 3.5 minutes are about how the phone has nothing the user wants.

Nice box... does it come without the phone?

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iOS and Android are doomed.

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The really nice boxes come with a cherry, not a phone.

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