Ubuntu for Android ⇥

This is certainly an intriguing possibility. Imagine being able to remove your phone from your pocket, and plug it into a computer, whereupon you have your entire setup ready to go. Canonical, the guys behind Ubuntu, want to make that a possibility. Based on Jamie Keene’s hands-on, I’d say it’s a great start. However, I’d obviously prefer OS X to Ubuntu.

Gruber thinks that this is the antithesis of cloud storage, but I see it as complementary. Imagine if your iPhone had an OS X partition which would automatically launch when docked. It could contain the applications and preferences, but the documents and files would be provided by iCloud. I think that’s a distinct possibility.