Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jul 2008 21:45 UTC
"The mobile phone operating system world was rocked recently by the announcement that Nokia had acquired all of the shares of Symbian that it didn't already own, and that it planned to transition the OS to an open-source licensing model," says DeviceGuru.
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Has anybody else noted the fact that Nokia hasn't comitted to opening a single line of code until at least 2010... This seems more aimed at generating buzz than anything else. If they were serious about saving Symbian, they would dump the code right now, Mozilla-style.
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Now that OS X has been shipping on the ARM for a year, Android shold be out soon enough (ha!), and Windows CE approaches usability....
Does it matter?
The real truth is, that if Microsoft had ported even NT 4.0 to the ARM it'd be a real player.
The real fun will start when the Atom cpu starts shipping in phones.
In the end Nokia will do what it does now... nurture it's antiquated OS, to the masses, you know the ones that just 'make calls'... It will be a long time before they die out. But it'll be a slow and protracted death marked with lots of blunders.
It reminds me a lot of Novell.