Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Apr 2011 19:57 UTC, submitted by PLan
Should I be sad or relieved? Groklaw, the website that played a central role in the SCO vs. sanity case, has just announced it will close up shop on May 16 of this year. Groklaw's place in history has been secured, surely, but in recent years, the site became more and more like a relic from the past, clearly stuck in the everyone vs. Microsoft mindset of the late '90s and early 2000s. Even in today's announcement post, Groklaw shows that its time has indeed come.
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RE[2]: As usual, Symbian not mentioned
by spiderman on Mon 11th Apr 2011 14:33
in reply to "RE: As usual, Symbian not mentioned"
Member since:2008-10-23
We actually are. SLC, Utah.
OK, sorry I wasn't aware about this. That explains everything. For your information, while Symbian is almost unheard of in the US, it is the dominant mobile OS in the rest or the world. The US is a very special market when it comes to mobile phones, because of CDMA and some other factors. The US market is actually still a very small market, although it has been catching up to the rest of the world recently, it is still lagging behind. Microsoft has been trying to enter the mobile market for almost a decade (long before the video game market) and failed, long before Android or iOS even existed.
RE[3]: As usual, Symbian not mentioned
by nt_jerkface on Mon 11th Apr 2011 16:06
in reply to "RE[2]: As usual, Symbian not mentioned"
Member since:2009-08-26
The US market is actually still a very small market, although it has been catching up to the rest of the world recently, it is still lagging behind.
The US is the largest smartphone market. I'm not sure how you would view it as "very small" in any context.
Microsoft has been trying to enter the mobile market for almost a decade (long before the video game market) and failed, long before Android or iOS even existed.
Since when does having a small market share equate failure?
RE[3]: As usual, Symbian not mentioned
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Mon 11th Apr 2011 16:46
in reply to "RE[2]: As usual, Symbian not mentioned"
Member since:2006-07-14
. For your information, while Symbian is almost unheard of in the US, it is the dominant mobile OS in the rest or the world.
If you define Dominant as "wildy unpopular, with a large quickly declining legacy marketshare." Then yes, you are correct. Symbian is not going to compete with Ios/Android/Blackberry/HPalm/. Nokia is going ahead with MS, not symbian as their flagship Mobile Operating System.
Also, Win Mobile 7, IOS, Android were created out of the United states. The market still sucks for carriers, but the phones are top notch and are influencing the international market share dramatically.
Member since:
2005-06-29
Yes. We are anti-Symbian. It is our mission to destroy Symbian. It is our goal to never mention Symbian because we're in cahoots with a secret society consisting of Google, Apple, and Microsoft. When I wake up, all I think about is "how can I make the life of the honest-to-god Symbian user spiderman more miserable today?". I get off on it.
We actually are. SLC, Utah.
Edited 2011-04-11 13:28 UTC