Off-topic but no doubt of interest, here's what Canonical's been up to lately...
http://developer.ubuntu.com/2013/10/...r-smartphones/
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...u-1310-release
Still quite a bit further behind overall, but everything just seems more slickly tied together, at least that's the "impression".
I'm not speaking in terms of the UX or sw-stack*, more-so in terms of how everything's being coordinated/communicated between them <-> usrs/devs as they move ahead.
But it could be just pure marketing rubbish....

*although there's aspects there that are appealing, plus some that very much aren't