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IMO they are bidding on Flutter hoping that it'll become next big thing replacing Android. It'll allow for easy porting mobile apps to Linux.

Time will tell whether they're right or not. They made some failed bids in the past (Mir, upstart), but at least they're trying to move.

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Could be. Maybe they learnt from Ubuntu Mobile, where they wanted app developers to write QT apps, instead of having support for e.g. apk files (the payoff for the time invested in writing a separate app for Ubuntu phones was never going to be there, unfortunately).

I think it's a positive that they're moving to a more common platform that is easier for developers to produce a build for. Good luck to them.

> They made some failed bids in the past (Mir, upstart)

Bzr, Launchpad, Unity, Juju, etc. They have a ton of misses.

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