After reading some articles concentrating on some
Symbian weak but marginal points (like the lack of
a high level scripting language). I think most of the
journalists and bloggers have missed the key point.
Symbian with their failure of delivering a one-hand
operated UI (UIQ on the P800 and P900 is
geek stuff) they have given the opportunity to Nokia
to gain control of the Symbian platform.
Series 60 has such a large market advantage that makes
no sense of developing an independent smartphone
interface based on Symbian:
http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=100302
This it has been a huge error. Motorola have decided that
there was no future in adopting Series 60 from its main
competitor while being UIQ based devices relegated
to a niche market.
So Symbian is in reality becoming more and more
a Nokia OS with a big problem of conflict of interests
between its hardware and software business.
Conflicts that could fuel the development
of real independent OS (Linux Ntt DoCoMo)
or give opportunity to OS-Only developers (MS).
This short sighted strategy have been able to give
Motorola in the hands of MS at a point when MS
Smartphones projects looked like doomed.
In the case of Nokia being in trouble with a falling market
share (Real danger with the 3G handsets), I would
like to see how Symbian could come out.
What do you think?
Cheers
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giovanni bertani mobile vas consultant
exsense italy
Received on Wed Jan 14 02:57:20 2004