Who cares about Ubuntu Edge

No, Im serious. Was there anyone interested in this? Weve seen the Indiegogo campaign to raise $32m for this fall flat, sort of, on its face. I was an Ubuntu fan until it started to get a little bloated around 11.x and it is no longer a distro of choice given its top-heaviness. The prospect of using this on a phone was not particularly exciting.

Does the failure represent an inappropriate use of crowdfunding? By comparison, Mozilla pressed ahead with their OS and now has manufacturers who are selling a device. The only difference here is that they funded their offering themselves and did not attempt to engage directly with those who may have been interested in their product. Perhaps if they had taken the Edge route, they too would have failed to make their target.

Given the overall dominance of Android and the 11000+ devices presently running this OS, and other competitors in the market who have faltered or failed (Micro$oft), what real chance does the Edge now have when you also factor in the apparent lack of interest?

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