Ubuntu One Gets iPhone App For Contact Sync

oneone writes "Canonical is bringing its Ubuntu One cloud service (which we discussed last month) to handheld devices with a new mobile contact synchronization feature that is powered by Funambol. Canonical's Ubuntu One application for the iPhone is now available from the iTunes Music Store. Android and other mobile operating systems will be supported with Funambol's standard client application. The mobile sync feature is currently in the beta testing stage but will be generally available to Ubuntu One subscribers when Ubuntu 10.04 is released later this month. Canonical says that it is boosting its Ubuntu One server infrastructure in order to support what it anticipates will be record loads."

Available only to subscribers

[nurb432]

Is this the beginning of their move to (mostly) pay product model, like Red Hat did after they used the OSS community for all they could?

Re:the cloud?

[raju1kabir]

His question is, why can't he configure the app to sync directly with the Ubuntu machine in his own house, rather than passing the data through a remote intermediary? It's a good question.