Comments on: New Ubuntu One features for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

By: bargains

bargains — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:21:43 +0000

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By: Andrew Joseph

Andrew Joseph — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:36:13 +0000

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By: Indrani Dawn

Indrani Dawn — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:04:16 +0000

How about syncing installed packages in synaptic.. Does anybody else find this interesting or useful?

By: Matt Griffin

Matt Griffin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:30:47 +0000

Jonathan: Great suggestion! Thanks. We have a team sprint coming up in a few weeks where we’ll plan lots of improvements to the Ubuntu One website features and this is on my wish list.

By: Jonathan Lathrop

Jonathan Lathrop — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:12:26 +0000

It would be nice to be able to download whole folders all at once including sub folders. One click instead of dozens to restore data to a computer…

By: Alfie Ramirez

Alfie Ramirez — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:42:02 +0000

I agree with others who have cited the need for a lower-cost subscription option. I really don’t need 50gb of storage, and $10/month is more than I wish to spend. However, now that Ubuntu One is working the way it should (it was really quite buggy in previous iterations), I would be happy to consider a 20gb plan for $5/month.
+1

By: Karlheinz Schlottbom

Karlheinz Schlottbom — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:35:33 +0000

The new feature are fine, of course. That is the right direction.

BUT: Fist the already existing feature should work. In addition to file sync that is syncronization of contacts and notes. That doesn’t work for several weeks now. Also there should be given an error message telling the reason when synronizing doesn’t work.

You want subscribers to pay for some features and more storage. As long as the service is not reliable and there is not a well communicated guaranteed service level I would not like to recommend that service.

By: Brad Carps

Brad Carps — Sun, 30 May 2010 00:12:46 +0000

this is a clever idea, but if it only duplicates what commercial services already provide (for example, dropbox), the only success it will achieve is in the open source crowd. if canononical is interested in a wider market, they need to differentiate. really, this applies across the board.

overall, though, i am much more impressed with v10 netbook than all others. it’s nice to finally see a useful, usable interface to linux.

suggestion: including google support for sync would be really cool and help do away with the idea of the provider mattering more than the data.

By: rpk

rpk — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:19:10 +0000

Hi!

what about offering a smaller plan, lets say 16GB for 5$/month?

By: Vitor Carvalho

Vitor Carvalho — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:00:11 +0000

I think that Ubuntu One could achieve all kind of users and being a perfect source of revenue for canonical if…:

Plan Free: 2Gb (no cost)
Plan Simple: 10 Gb / 2€mo
(Plan Medium: 20Gb / 5€mo – if really necessary)
Plan Enterprise (or “Geek” hihi): 100Gb 10€mo

Maybe another plan for companies to use the storage as a CRM Database (we have openoffice.org base that connects mysql or glom with postgresql).

Perhaps, with further investment, serve a website, e-commerce, with the ability to manage quickly from their computers…

But you need to be quick to gain the marketplace of small-medium sized companies