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saidajigumi on June 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: My Ubuntu for mobile devices post-mortem analysis

Another factor the article only partially addresses are "moat apps", which are really platform services. Mapping is perhaps the leader among these, and arguably the killer app during the advent of mobile. Did Ubuntu Phone have any mapping solution at all?

Even if it did, the article cites "Mobile data was unreliable, [...] The location service was very unreliable." bodes extremely poorly for the device being usable for mapping services at all.

notspanishflu on June 21, 2017 [–]

Ubuntu phone had a wonderful map app[0] called uNav and it worked really well. In fact it still works well in UBports[1].

The GPS problem was with some phone models, not all.

[0] https://openstore.ubports.com/app/navigator.costales

[1] https://ubports.com/

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