Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 2nd Apr 2005 20:44 UTC
The future is mobile. That much we know for sure. But it seems that the operating system world in this market is being rapidly taken over by --again-- Microsoft. The new smart phones are are using WinCE, Symbian or Palm. Linux has barely 1% of this new, smartphone market.
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You are saying MS Mobile is overtaking Symbian in the smart phone market? Some numbers please because all the numbers I have seen shows nothing of the kind.
Now, the latest version of Symbian OS is 9, that's what both UIQ v3 and Series 60 v3 is based off so your note about 8 being the latest is wrong.
Do you really think the major cell phone manufacturers are going to give up controlling their own operating system in favour of using Microsofts offerings?
As far as I can tell Symbian OS will creep down from smart phones to midrange phones, increasing it's market share. Linux phones will go big in China due to government funding for Linux in cell phones. How Microsoft Mobile will fit in to this I don't know. It's neither the technically superiour offering nor the one that makes most economical sense in the long term but I am sure you can outline your reasons beyond "PocketPC destroyed Palm and Microsoft has lots of money".