You're right, I was being imprecise. I should have said Gnome and Canonical should stop obsessing about mobile and tablets. I guess I see more evidence of them obsessing about tablets and netbooks than about mobile. The thing that really bothers me is when I see the "workstation" experience get worse so that the tablet/netbook experience can be made better. I spend all day in front of a workstation, and maybe an hour a day with a tablet.
Well he said Linux rather than Gnome, not sure which he actually meant.
As far as I'm aware Gnome have never really tried to get in on the phone/tablet space. I'm not aware if there is even a phone that you can purchase with Gnome installed.
I am less concerned about getting Gnome or Unity on my phone and more concerned about an experience that you get between iPhone and Mac. A seamless integration. Their is no single media player in Linux that does that. libmtp doesn't really work.
I have thought about doing that but I would like to setup a media player which automatically generate playlist based on my listening habits like most played, recently played, etc. And it to work two ways.
Playlists can be very useful.
iSyncr and iTunes can do that but I haven't found a seamless solution for Linux yet.