On 22 July, Canonical launchedan ambitious Indiegogo campaign which aimed to raise $32 million (£21.5 million) to fund the devleopment of the Ubuntu Edge superphone.
Within hours the phone had raised millions and is, in a way, the most successful crowdfunding project ever, breaking the $10,266,845 (£6,546,000) record set by the Pebble watch -- but the campaign finishes on 22 August and the figure is still nearly $20 million (£12.75 million) shy of its target.
"I don't want to be negative," Jane Silber, Canonical's CEO tells Wired.co.uk, "but we've got, what, 20 hours left. It looks like we're not going to meet our target." The Edge in its current form will probably never be made she adds, but the support for the campaign was a massive boon. It suggests not only that there are plenty of people out there who are interested in owning an Ubuntu OS phone, but that there's significant support for more innovation within established product categories
via wired
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