The Symbian OS was a team effort between Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Panasonic, Samsung and Siemens. Reports said, that in the eve of the 10th year anniversary from the creation of Symbian, Nokia has bought the 8.4% Siemens stake for 70 million Euros ($108.6 million) and will now have over 56% of controlling interest in the group, but the press release says that Nokia takes it all. This could have created quite some uneasiness to the other players, but Nokia will play nice.
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Member since:2008-01-14
You are wrong in at least one point: Symbian and Qtopia aren't competing - Qtopia is layer on system below so Symbian as OS + Qtopia as GUI can play nicely along.
Also they bought Trolltech for whole package. Supposedly Qt will be core for all their applications on mobiles, desktops etc.
Member since:2007-09-06
There is a project to bridge GTK with QT so programs based on both libraries work together on the N series. I'm using QT based KeepassX on Maemo already but the bridge will allow GTK input for QT along with programs based on either to interact with the other. QT based KeepassX currently takes input perfectly from the 810's phisical keypad but the bridge will let it open browser url and copy/past uname and passwd properly; that's an advantage with some of my 20+ char random passwords.
Symbian and Maemo may be more competitive but that's just fine if they can continue development on both platforms or somehow merge them. Maybe we'll be able to run the whole Symbian library on Maemo. Ideally, we may be able to choose which base OS and interface to install while having access to both software libraries.
(now I'm back to my daydreaming about a Symbian boot partiton along side my Maemo boot.)
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2008-03-17
read this:
http://www.symbianfoundation.org/
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2007-02-05
First they bought Trolltech when they allready where involved with a GTK-based mobile plattform(and Trolltech is QT-based and in addittion have a mobile plattform of their own).
Now they're open source symbian too. They're basicly involved in 3 competeting projects.
What's next? Getting involved with Android?
Nokia is confusing me. If there are some important pieces I'm missing here please enlighten me.