That’s kinda the point. The digital signage options currently suck. It’s an underserved market.

Can you explain a bit more? What's missing from current options?

I think the idea is that as long as there is pain, there is a way to introduce a value proposition. For example, see https://www.businessmodelsinc.com/about-bmi/tools/value-prop...

...what?

I'm asking what he is missing in current available options. In other words, what the 'pain' is. I'm not asking about business opportunities.

Sorry, misunderstood your question!

I assume it is a massive market. Every fast food restaurant, clothing store, mall, arena, train and airport station, and so on has or will have it in the near future.

Infrastructure isn't sexy, but it can make money.

Seems to be another attempt to push snaps to me.

Indeed, it is if you are an IoT device manufacturer. IoT is a bit of a laughing stock due to poor security and updates, which is what snap is trying to bring to the table with reliable, automatic updates for the OS and software components, and containerization.

There is no fun… but there is money, I guess? An LTS comes with 4-5 years of free updates and Canonical charges for 5 more years of security updates.

Given how much enterprise solutions cost (at least last time I checked a few years ago), yes there is money in it.

It might suck for you but does it suck as a revenue source for Canonical? Successful business doesn't always mean having fun.

Seems useful to me. There are so versions of kiosks in the world, and this prevents an MS license fee.

Yep, I hope Ubuntu in signage will put an end to an endless source of embarrassment like https://www.reddit.com/r/PBSOD/comments/abjex3/public_bsod_i...

I've seen plenty of pictures of digital signage with kernel panics and system v/systemd errors too. Ironically, most of them on /r/linux as a sign of pride.

I have a feeling the ubuntu equivalent will just show up.