Shuttleworth: Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, rather than Phone and convergence

Mark Shuttleworth reportsthat Canonical is ending its investment in Unity8, the phone andconvergence shell. GNOME will be the default desktop for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS."The choice, ultimately, is to invest in the areas which arecontributing to the growth of the company. Those are Ubuntu itself, fordesktops, servers and VMs, our cloud infrastructure products (OpenStack andKubernetes) our cloud operations capabilities (MAAS, LXD, Juju, BootStack),and our IoT story in snaps and Ubuntu Core. All of those have communities,customers, revenue and growth, the ingredients for a great and independentcompany, with scale and momentum. This is the time for us to ensure, acrossthe board, that we have the fitness and rigour for that path."(Thanks to Unnikrishnan Alathady Maloor)