tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898384.post3401525079145306264..comments2024-03-25T21:41:06.801-07:00Comments on Mobile Opportunity: Symbian: Evolving toward openMichael Macehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17966107280587843091noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898384.post-35538330415498703202011-03-14T04:35:48.311-07:002011-03-14T04:35:48.311-07:00Nokia is not dumping symbian, Qt or MeeGo. It is j...Nokia is not dumping symbian, Qt or MeeGo. It is just adding another OS to its family. Nokia is very much aware of the fact that Qt has a huge impact on developers and is one of its best move till now, then what make u all think that Nokia is going to throw that away and not support it in future.<br />What Nokia did can prove to be a huge success in long run not only for Nokia but also to developers because now developers have an added choice of creating apps using WP7 and selling it worldwide.<br /><br />One more thing, Nokia has 75 million symbian devices in market at present and launching 150 million more of it.<br />I think Qt and symbian are very well going to live. I love Qt and I am going to continue developing for it.<br /><br /><br />This is going to be a great partnership. The world's leading phone manufacturer with an awesome OS. It will get better and better. Just look at iOS. When it was released it was laughable and now it is rockin. What is the point of being so disappointed? Just give it some time and we will definitely see success.<br /><br />I think Nokia has the license to customize WP7 now, which is a good thing. Actually, they claim they'll be working in partnership with MS to that purpose. So, I'm already assuming that the WP7 OS we'll find on Nokia phones will be to some degree different (albait compatible, I really hope) from the one on other hardware producers. <br /><br />I also think it will be quite likely we'll see other features I can't really understand why are currently missing in WP7, such as thetering and Sync with Outlook. <br />In other words, I think this degree of exclusivity may be enough to generate that uniqueness that is indeed needed to compete against the iPhone.<br /><br />Look What Windows Phone Engineering offer ideas on building the next great mobile software developer opportunity: http://www.forum.nokia.com/nokia-microsoft.xhtmlTheRohanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16666273102326822761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898384.post-12935181339679781182009-06-10T18:05:22.456-07:002009-06-10T18:05:22.456-07:00Since Apple makes ample profits from device sales,...Since Apple makes ample profits from device sales, it, like a non-profit organization, doesn't have to make money off developers. (Same for Google who makes ample profits from ad sales.) So, not much of an advantage there.<br /><br />On the other hand, Apple has already established a solid base of 40m devices ready to run "sophisticated" apps. There is a large base of phones running earlier versions of Symbian out there, but how much of that hardware base can be upgraded to run "sophisticated" apps? Can a developer create just one or two app configurations to support all of that base?<br /><br />And when will Nokia do some effective marketing in USA? Or partner with a carrier to do so?<br /><br />markAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898384.post-47715670574767022592009-06-10T00:27:43.152-07:002009-06-10T00:27:43.152-07:00Symbian as an Open Sourec OS vendor is dead in the...Symbian as an Open Sourec OS vendor is dead in the water without the backing of a big device manufacturer. Currently it is Nokia, maybe Samsung and SonyEricsson in the near future. This means that developers working with Symbian are dependent on Nokia having it's act together. <br /><br />And that's the problem now, Nokia has a track record of not getting it right and worse, not learning from it's mistakes. They also act too much in their own interest and not enough in the interest of ISV's, if their interests collide. Their Mosh site was a good example, it was stuffed with cracked commercial Symbian software, and Nokia didn't do a thing about it.<br /><br />Ovi is an excellent idea, but it has a serious problem with the 40% to 60% operator billing cost. That's just too much, it turns out that it eats away all the extra profits one might make given the size of the potential user base. Nokia not being able to get operators to reduce that cost to a much more reasonable 5% means they are not as powerful as Apple. Apple can easily take its entiere smartphone business to another oparator, Nokia can't because of their basic and feature phone business.<br /><br />In short, Symbian being Open Source isn't solving important business issues for ISV's targetting consumers. The only thing no OS vendor has solved well is piracy, my tip to Symbian is to create a system where it is really hard to install cracked software, or other content.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898384.post-76733168929496126902009-06-08T20:28:40.911-07:002009-06-08T20:28:40.911-07:00In addition to not hyping the apps on the Palm pla...In addition to not hyping the apps on the Palm platform, there was no one reputable place to find apps. You also had to sync your device with your computer to add the app to the device.<br /><br />Sure a variety of sites popped up to fill the need, like Handango or whatnot, but to find a particular app, you had to hunt through the various sites. Also, for the apps that were not free, the prices were high. <br /><br />If a particular software (like a game) costs $30 on a PC, I think that people's natural inclination is that a similar software on a handheld device should be cheaper because the device is physically smaller.<br /><br />Palm did very well against CE devices for a long time. PalmOS hit the wall though and it seemed that no further innovation went into it after ~2001 when the Treo 600 came out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898384.post-60738501307871720792009-06-08T03:38:33.849-07:002009-06-08T03:38:33.849-07:00Nokia screwed it up around 2006-2007 when they wer...Nokia screwed it up around 2006-2007 when they were more than happy to sell the S60 "smartphones" as feature phones/high end cameraphones and did nothing to promote/help the 3rd party applications. No surprise only 5-7% of S60 buyers installed any app. They even got 1 year as a gift from Apple before the native iPhone SDK and still nothing. Now when the application scene is booming they are in trouble. Interestingly SE screwed it up from the opposite direction: UIQ was a good (although niche) app platform, they killed it with lemons like the P990. Losers.Mobile Observernoreply@blogger.com