"Are we mainstream-ready yet?"
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Hi UBports community,
I discovered Ubuntu Touch recently and feel very enthusiastic about it, as an alternative to current mainstream options.
But it is difficult to estimate where it is, in terms of user experience. I watched a couple of videos, and it seems still in a clearly "early adopter" phase.
Was wondering whether it could make sense to publish a table or roadmap outlining the exact features, services and improvements that are missing to match the Android/iOS user experience. This would help potential users, as well as developers to identify quickly where to help, and possibly also funders, who could more easily understand viability.
I imagine that there's a well organized board of technical issues, but this still is meaningful to give a more general overview, to a wider audience, and more specific about the gap to mainstream platforms.
Thank you!
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@developer Thanks for your thoughts - maybe this:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11644/smooth-edges-name-pending-let-s-fix-the-bugs-that-drive-you-mad
is a good place to dive in. -
fact is, the product needs marketing as much as new developers. There could be some videos on the main site highlighting the UI features because there are quite a few useful tricks that are not apparent for new users - to be fair, this is an issue for a tool like a phone that has no place on the screen for extended help, however there is a wealth of news articles, third party videos and user base that compensates this for Android while there is not much for UT.
I have browsed a bit the videos on Youtube and found a (too big) number of basic videos giving only basic introduction so your impression may be biased too much on 'early adopters'. Using a supported phone (Volla, Fairphone, Brax now it seems) makes a difference in ease of use not having to delve too much into custom roms.
