[In a blog post from Mark Shuttleworth](https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05
/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/),
Canonical will stop work on Unity 8 and the desktop
server Mir. In
Ubuntu 18.04, GNOME and Wayland will be the desktop display technologies. This
effectively cancels their work on phones, tablets, and convergence.