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Yes, the Linux world should stop obsessing about mobile and tablets, since they've basically already lost that battle.

Well that depends on if you include Android or not and I don't really understand the logic not to.

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You're right, I was being imprecise. I should have said Gnome and Canonical should stop obsessing about mobile and tablets. I guess I see more evidence of them obsessing about tablets and netbooks than about mobile. The thing that really bothers me is when I see the "workstation" experience get worse so that the tablet/netbook experience can be made better. I spend all day in front of a workstation, and maybe an hour a day with a tablet.

GNOME definitely does not include Android; it's a completely different OS that happens to share mostly the same kernel.

Well he said Linux rather than Gnome, not sure which he actually meant.

As far as I'm aware Gnome have never really tried to get in on the phone/tablet space. I'm not aware if there is even a phone that you can purchase with Gnome installed.

I am less concerned about getting Gnome or Unity on my phone and more concerned about an experience that you get between iPhone and Mac. A seamless integration. Their is no single media player in Linux that does that. libmtp doesn't really work.

I don't know if I'm just old school, but I prefer just to plug my devices in and drag files over. Seems fairly seemless to me.

I have thought about doing that but I would like to setup a media player which automatically generate playlist based on my listening habits like most played, recently played, etc. And it to work two ways.

Playlists can be very useful.

iSyncr and iTunes can do that but I haven't found a seamless solution for Linux yet.

You mean you want iTunes for Android? Yeah. Good luck with that.

Personally, I'm glad I have a phone which I have no need to "sync" with any of my PCs anymore. It just feels very, very old-fashioned.

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