I wrote in another post that I think/hope that the new buzzword ‘ecosystem’ is a just fad that will eventually be replaced by largely platform-independent services and an open OS.
I am aware of that there is little economical incentive for the current big players to go down that path (with Google possibly being the least one to resist as long as it generates traffic for them), something that was also mentioned in the comments of that post. So I have was thinking about it when I came across this article at The Register about Canonical. Since I use Ubuntu it should immediately have occurred to me that Canonical is one of the obvious candidates for coming up with that open solution I am hoping for: if I am not tied to or need nor want any ‘ecosystem’ on my desktop then why would I want it on my smartphone/mobile computer?
In the meanwhile I am crossing my fingers for that rumored MeeGo announcement on June 21!
