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nnutter on April 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phon...

Canonical ”raised" like 20 million USD to create a converged phone but the "community/market didn't want it"?

joshlemer on April 5, 2017 | [–]

That was $12 million, and that was in 2013, and if I understand correctly how indiegogo works, they didn't get to claim any of that money because they didn't reach their goal of $30 million

wmf on April 5, 2017 | [–]

If the cost to build a viable mobile OS is more like $100M, maybe the market didn't want it badly enough.

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