"But if we get to the end and there is no significant change, it will end there." The approaches never appeared, and the clock ran down. "We have had a number of interesting approaches from industry players which get us closer," he said at the time. Speaking on Monday, Shuttleworth was still hopeful that there would be a last-minute intervention by a handset maker or industry player who would kick in $20m and kickstart the program. If the $32m total had been hit, Canonical said it would begin providing them from May 2014. The Edge would have been a smartphone with 128GB storage, running both Android and Ubuntu Mobile, and capable of working as a desktop computer when plugged into a large screen. Shuttleworth insisted that despite the failure, carriers and handset makers are definitely interested in building handsets which will run the mobile Linux - but that they will not be the top-end "superphones" which the Edge project hoped to produce. Speaking exclusively to the Guardian on Monday, he said ahead of the deadline that if it failed, "It's definitely set a record for the most money raised, but also for the most missed in a campaign." The total pledges were almost $2m ahead of those raised by the Pebble smartwatch on Kickstarter - which did, however, hit and exceed its funding goal. But the failure hasn't deterred Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, which was behind the project.
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