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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I expect that sort of convergence will take place around Android. While originally written to power smartphones, it uses Linux, and there is no requirement that what it powers has to be a phone. The flood of Android tablets like the one I have came as no surprise.
There are alpha test ports of Android to X86, so a version of Android that runs on a desktop is likely, and down the road, everything you have will run Windows, iOS, or Android.
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Well, Ubuntu does have Convergence planned with Unity, possibly in 14.10 when they can finally start shipping Ubuntu phones...
Isn't the important thing having one architecture to build the code for? After that, you can just install one base system and depending on whether you install for a phone/tablet or a PC, the appropriate packages get installed to setup the right environment?
So far, all attempts to provide one desktop that scales for both have been a miserable failure. As you said:
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Meanwhile, the issue is that one UI doesn't fit all. Lots of folks drag their feet about upgrading to a new Windows version. (Corporate users are especially foot draggers, because company wide upgrades are troublesome and expensive.) The Win8 Metro interface seems to be a major reason for foot dragging in moving to Win 8, so no particular surprise if the Start menu returns in Win 9.
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I don't expect that Android on the desktop will so much as voice an opinion on UI, though it will probably come
together with Yet Another Failed One-Size-Fits-All Desktop.