Comments on: Nokia Acquires Symbian – Goes Open Source

By: att phones » Blog Archive » SYMBIAN 08

att phones » Blog Archive » SYMBIAN 08 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:47:53 +0000

[...] people! This is a guide for symbian 9.2! Your n73s were able to be hacked many weeks ago! … Nokia Acquires Symbian – Goes Open SourceJun 24, 2008 … June 24th, 2008 at 4:31 am; Nokia + open source Symbian: too little, … [...]

By: Just who the hell was jezar@cix anyway? « musings.cxf

Just who the hell was jezar@cix anyway? « musings.cxf — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:18:01 +0000

[...] and/or Symbian. Presumably now he’s lost in the overall noodle-shgrapple that’s post Nokia aquisition/Symbian Foundation fall-out…. Again, I say, “Who Cares?” [...]

By: Can the iPhone Beat Symbian OS? | SesliChat Sesli Sohbet

Can the iPhone Beat Symbian OS? | SesliChat Sesli Sohbet — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:50:21 +0000

[...] on Tuesday released its second quarter financial data. The Nokia-owned company said that it bested last year’s sales mark with 19.6 million units sold. That may [...]

By: Can the iPhone Beat Symbian OS? | aboutCREATION

Can the iPhone Beat Symbian OS? | aboutCREATION — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:16:13 +0000

[...] on Tuesday released its second quarter financial data. The Nokia-owned company said that it bested last year’s sales mark with 19.6 million units sold. That may [...]

By: Can the iPhone Beat Symbian OS?

Can the iPhone Beat Symbian OS? — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:00:31 +0000

[...] on Tuesday released its second quarter financial data. The Nokia-owned company said that it bested last year’s sales mark with 19.6 million units sold. That may [...]

By: OSCON 2008 | NP3i

OSCON 2008 | NP3i — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:15:36 +0000

[...] día Linux y por otro, ante la presión por no perder mercado ante la futura aparición de Android, Nokia apostó a comprar Symbian para poder publicarlo como open source y poder ganar así más adeptos dispuestos a desarrollar [...]

By: austin

austin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:36:41 +0000

our cell phone users will benefit more from open sources. just like iphone, google and nokia compete together, we smile

By: Symbian « DVictor - carnetelul meu

Symbian « DVictor - carnetelul meu — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:09:23 +0000

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By: Nokia Buys Symbian OS an makes it open source « The Lunchtime Show!

Nokia Buys Symbian OS an makes it open source « The Lunchtime Show! — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:30:08 +0000

[...] 27, 2008 This is pretty interesting news. In the mobile “smart” phone OS race you have a few biggies and Symbian is probably one [...]

By: Tim Ocock @ Symsource

Tim Ocock @ Symsource — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:18:48 +0000

Who thinks we will see the Android Dalvik/Java API on the new open source Symbian OS one day?

It has the potential to be the best of both worlds – a mature, proven and complete 3G phone OS, with a great API for third parties.

By: Philip Buxton

Philip Buxton — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:36:00 +0000

a- ha. okay. for what it’s worth, my view is that it’s bought it because it’s realised why the iPhone is so good – Apple controls device, operating system and software. Usability is reliant on all those things working seamlessly. I really don’t think anyone, including Nokia, would spend $400m on something to get rid.
Just posted about it more fully.

By: Kristoffer Lawson

Kristoffer Lawson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:50:26 +0000

Jimbo, Philip: Sorry, I did not mean to imply that being physically close means I would know any better than anyone else. It was meant to be just an interesting footnote.

Yes, my response was partly knee-jerk, and I believe Symbian will be with us for quite some time, much like they still sell S40 phones. However, I do believe Nokia will want to be moving away from Symbian in the long term, and quite rightly so. I know a lot of developers who have dealt with Symbian here, and I’ve done some work with it myself. It’s not a very loved platform at all. As it stands today, the iPhone platform and Android are more modern and developers love them.

So why buy it? For control. What companies do all the time when purchasing assets. It’s possible it might not have been possible to opensource it without buying it. It’s possible they are planning to completely rebuild the whole thing. Whatever the case, I’m not convinced opensource developers will be flocking to develop the core OS.

And, if you think about it, why should they? Nokia already has a multitasking device with a touchscreen, and that’s running Linux …

By: Faisal Khan

Faisal Khan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:15:36 +0000

There are pre-dominantly three OS for the desk top – MacOS, Windows and Linux, what’s the consolidation prediction for the mobile phone?

By: Prdo

Prdo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:30:44 +0000

@32

Google? Neutral party? Give me some of the stuff you’ve been smoking. Google would be as much as neutral party as Apple is with the iPhone and Microsoft is with Windows Mobile.

Dream on, buddy. A publicly traded company cares about one, and one thing only: their shareholders. If Google was neutral how come they distort every single product they interfere with (e.g. no Live Search option in Google Toolbar, and many others???)

By: Andy Wong

Andy Wong — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:44:41 +0000

Open Source many not necessarily good for quality, but definitely good for popularity. Good move.

By: Hans Erik

Hans Erik — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:13:06 +0000

Regardless of how easy it is to program for, Prdo is correct (despite his condescending tone), Symbian has an enormous share of the mobile phone market. This is game-changing news, regardless of what your allegiances are.

By: WIRELESS « Daily Marauder

WIRELESS « Daily Marauder — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:08:07 +0000

[...] which is an alliance of mobile vendors and application providers that any company can join. (http://www.tech...oes-open-source [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » NokiaがSymbian全買収、オープンソースとして公開へ

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » NokiaがSymbian全買収、オープンソースとして公開へ — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:56:03 +0000

[...] [原文へ] [...]

By: Prdo

Prdo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:51:08 +0000

OMG TechCrunch is again dominated by a bunch of US-centric amateurs who know nothing about mobile.

Symbian my dear American imbeciles owns 45% of the worldwide smartphone business. Nokia has 35% total market share overall.

Symbian is open source? Why in god’s name would a developer choose to work on a non-existent OS like Google when they have billions of phones out there with S60?

Android is done.
We will have Windows Mobile and iPhone compete against Symbian. Oh yeah, and a few techcrunchies lick-a$$es to continue using Android.

Arrington: this desevers a top headline, not some lousy let’s-quote-FT/WSJ-post.

By: anonymous coward

anonymous coward — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:58:24 +0000

Will the Open Source community please fix the freakin’ multiple-confirm (like I have to hit OK 3 times) just to get online already?

Symbian is like the old MacOS 9. And iPhone is OSX in terms of UI. What can you say?

By: Hjalmar’s Rebtel breaking all records

Hjalmar’s Rebtel breaking all records — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:50:44 +0000

[...] September taking place in Europe around their Facebook application. Actually we were discussing the Symbian sale to Nokia and it came out that Hjalmar is one of the founding fathers of the mobile web, I [...]

By: brklynsurfer

brklynsurfer — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:50:12 +0000

Nokia just restructured in January. I think if there is any company that has the ability to change, its Nokia ( which was once a paper mil and started as a fish canning operation). They are making a lot of moves in the internet space with OVI and recently Plazes. I hope this move to buy the OS gives them the ability to improve the UI, the useability and drop some of the legacy things for fear of customer dis-satisfaction. Why is it that there is a software upgrade for European Nokia-e70’s and I can’t get it because I have a North America version?

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:15:54 +0000

WTF? Why is the people saying that Sybmian is a horrible OS? Are you inexperience developers or what? I know, it’s really hard to develop applications for Symbian; but once you get experience is a magnific OS.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:11:29 +0000

Open sourcing sounds great, but it seems likely that either Nokia will optimize the kernel for their phones (making others not want to use it), or the OS will fragment (reducing advantages of having a third-party OS).

Having a neutral party like Google maintain the OS may make more sense.

Any others here for banning #23?

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:54:03 +0000

Kristopher Lawson… I think you are full of it. Why would they buy it when they want to get rid of it. Makes no sense whatsoever…. if you want to get rid of it, sell your share to someone else….

And howbeing located close to Noka’s R&D should give you more credibility I think you’d have to figure that one out yourself…