* Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think U1 was probably ahead of it's time. Canonical need it > now, not back then.
I suspect the opposite might be true. I don't really know, but how it looked to me was that U1 came too late, not too early. File clouds were cool and profitable for a while, but competition grew quickly until it was no longer possible to make money on dropbox clones. Companies then used them as loss leaders but not as profit centers. Plus, U1 and its music store were a bit unreliable. Stories like this were far too common: Someone would sync their desktop and notebook, decide it was storing too much data on the notebook, un-sync parts of it from the notebook, then discover a week later that the data got "un-synced" from the desktop too -- leaving no remaining copies. Or use it as a backup service, wipe their drive to reinstall, then try to restore the backup... only to discover that the "wipe" got synced to the backup copy and the data was gone. It's possible to be a little *too* synchronized. -- Selene -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp