Ubuntu Core for IoT

Anyone know what the point of this is? I installed it but it uses the snappy repo, not apt, which has a pretty limited number of packages available.

Docker is one of them so maybe that's the point of this - a boot to docker type platform for pi. However, you can just as easily install docker on the arch image for pi, so idk. https://resin.io/blog/docker-on-raspberry-pi-in-4-simple-ste...