Sony Ericsson Abandons Symbian
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 24th Sep 2010 23:20 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless Well, this certainly isn't particularly surprising. The rising popularity of Android leaves more victims in its wake than just Windows Mobile. Sony Ericsson, one of the major manufacturers of Symbian phones (other than Nokia) has just announced it will pretty much abandon the platform to focus entirely on Android - leaving Nokia as the sole person cheering for team Symbian.
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Bill Shooter of Bul
Member since:
2006-07-14

You're correct, people do mean the entire OS when they typically say "Linux". But I don't think that's correct here either.

You probably meant Unix. Mac OSX is more of a Unix than Android. People sometimes mean "Unix" when they say "Linux", but that's really not as well accepted and people with grey beards will throw stuff at you for saying it.

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vivainio Member since:
2008-12-26

You probably meant Unix.


"Linux" means a bit more than Unix in terms of functionality. When you say Unix, you don't necessarily expect stuff like X11, dbus, gconf, Gtk or Qt to be available.

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Bill Shooter of Bul Member since:
2006-07-14

I don't think those are necessarily implied by the term Linux, either. I don't have X11, dbus, gconf, GTK, or QT availible on my servers. When talking to people about them, I'd say Linux and people would understand that without expecting any of those desktop layers.


I thought you were referring to the standard tools and libraries being available. ( which actually are different on *BSD, Mac, Linux, but somewhat similar).

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