Shuttleworth: Trust Us, We're Trying to Make Shopping Better 255
An anonymous reader writes "In a blog post responding to the latest controversy over Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth says 'integrating online scope results' are 'not putting ads in Ubuntu' because the shopping results 'are not paid placement', but 'straightforward search results'. He goes on to explain his plans to make the Home Lens of the Dash a place to find 'anything anywhere'. Like a cross between Chrome OS's new app launcher, Siri and Google Now 'it will get smarter and smarter' so you can 'ask for whatever you want' it 'just works'."
Re:The future of operating systems (Score:4, Interesting)
It was Steve Jobs Idea First (Score:4, Interesting)
Ubuntu desktop is dead to me... (Score:5, Interesting)
...so many other things that need fixing, and they're whacking off about internet search.
If I want to search the internet, I pull up google and search. That crap has no business on my desktop
Paid Placement (Score:3, Interesting)
'are not paid placement'
Ummm, Are you getting paid? Would you still get the money if you removed the Amazon component from the OS? OK, let's see if you can follow this: When you get paid for a commercial placement, that is paid placement. The fact that the individual items displayed are not paid placements does not change the fact that the entire component is a paid placement.
This is just his nature. He is a sleazeball. That's why so many of us were so hesitant to use Ubuntu way back when it started rising. Do we really want to get an OS from this glorified PHB? What slimy crap is he going to pull next? On the upside, he also has some really stupid ideas about the direction of the UI, so it doesn't hurt to just walk away. Just walk away.
Perhaps it just needs to be framed right.. (Score:4, Interesting)
... as in an application/add on/option type of functionality. And to increase interest, not that google general search results always find what you want, provide the users with easy to use filtering.... so if they boycott a company, they don't have to see their ads when searching.
Re:Every Web 2.0 company eventually 'digs in' (Score:4, Interesting)
A very miniscule proportion of what attracts Valve to Ubuntu has anything to do with what Canonical has done. Like any other distribution, Ubuntu is the combination of a number of upstream projects. Canonical really gets much more than it gives in this respect.
What Canonical does is mainly configuration management and that it tends to do poorly. They already have a bad reputation for pushing out versions before they're ready or making other bad decisions.
The fact that they've decided to put on the afterburners after having jumped the shark is really no surprise to anyone.
Private information leakage. (Score:5, Interesting)
Every time you search for a local file on your computer, the details of that search will be transmitted to a third party cloud service. That is a huge potential privacy issue regardless of who that service is. Worse, they they don't even make their users aware of this fact, which is completely unacceptable. That Canonical still doesn't understand this after being having it brought to their attention means they clearly cannot be trusted to assemble a secure Linux distribution.
Re:Ubuntu desktop is dead to me... (Score:2, Interesting)
Shuttleworth wasted a boat-load of money on idiotic ideas such as Unity.
Unity lenses are speedy (Score:2, Interesting)
Unity lenses are speedy on my laptop (Corei3-350M, 2GiB RAM, magnetic 320GB HD), except when I have 100+ Firefox tabs open and the system is swapping heavily.