This feels like a dumb question.... but necessary.

From: "http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/canonical-narrows-timeframe-for-ubuntu-for-smartphones-February/"

" ...although actually doing something with it might be another story, since there's likely to be very few apps available..."

Am I to understand that Ubuntu Phone won't be able to run Ubuntu applications? That seems really dumb to me... but then I figured Android would leverage linux applications and they never did... sooo.... ?