Remember before netbooks arrived when everyone thought MIDs would take over the world? MIDs are mobile Internet devices. They are supposed to be small computers you can carry around in your pocket, but they never really took off. Ubuntu MID edition might be able to bring them back, though.

Thanks to the iPhone, the primary value of most smartphones comes from their applications. Regardless of the controversy Apple’s app store created, it certainly changed the game for mobile devices.

Since then, we have leared about plans to make it possible to run Android applications on Ubuntu. This could give some new life to MIDs. Imagine if on your MID, in addition to doing whatever normal things you would do on a MID, you could run applications, preferably from diffferent sources. For example, this would allow you to tkae advantage of the applicatinos created for different phone systems, without having multiple devices.

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