Comments on: Symbian Gains EU Backing to Prevent an Android Future

By: Idea scoop, open sourced | geschreven om te lezen

Idea scoop, open sourced | geschreven om te lezen — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:36:56 +0000

[...] komt ie: Op 2 november lees ik ondermeer bij Gigaom dat de Europese unie via één of andere constructie 22 miljoen Euro in Symbian steekt. Symbian is [...]

By: Korbermeister

Korbermeister — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:36:26 +0000

Snark Of The Day!

By: vdiv

vdiv — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:48:48 +0000

That’s the problem, “Once the new Qt based UI is out…” The end user doesn’t give a rats behind about the underpinings, otherwise we all would be using Solaris or something. The UI, the vertical integration to offer complete souliton, and the resulting usability is all that counts. It is why the iPhone OS with all of its limitation went gangbusters.

Symbian is too quirky, too disjoined, too hard to develop on, and with the speed at which software evolves, really a part of history.

By: Johnny Tremaine

Johnny Tremaine — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:17:08 +0000

Eh, whatever. It won’t make any difference to resuscitate Symbian.

Symbian should be auditioning for a walk-on part as a shuffling zombie on The Walking Dead.

By: Hardeep Singh

Hardeep Singh — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:01:37 +0000

“they’re running with stale technology, and to fix it will take a lot more than EUR22M”

Do you even know what you’re talking about? UI is not same as the OS. You’re reading too much of Gizmodo I guess. Symbian^3 brought thousands of under the hood changes and the damn thing is steady as a rock and much more resource efficient than any of the competing OSs out there. Symbian^4 was supposed to bring the much needed UI changes, the changes will still come but it won’t be called Symbian^4. Once the new Qt based UI is out, Symbian will become modern as per your definition.

And since Symbian has taken a Continuous Improvement approach, all the changes will also come to current Symbian^3 handsets available in the market like C7 and N8.

By: Hardeep Singh

Hardeep Singh — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:51:52 +0000

That comment is so 2007. Its been 3 years, get over it. Symbian isn’t dying.

By: grellanl

grellanl — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:54:46 +0000

I think you’re spot-on about the ‘why’ here, the only question is, what can they realistically achieve?

For all that the Symbian Foundation has lofty goals, they’re running with stale technology, and to fix it will take a lot more than EUR22M. If only they had access to something like QNX that would make much more sense, that really is some nice tech – but RIM has that sewn up now.

It seems like a Linux-based choice like Meego might have given them better bang for their euro, and have more of a chance of success.

By: avi

avi — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:45:27 +0000

Oh symbian..i think you’re gonna die pretty soon. Compared to other OS you are so outdated!

By: Hardeep Singh

Hardeep Singh — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:50:32 +0000

A new set of people deciding things for them.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:14:05 +0000

I suppose you would have a point if 22 million Euros wasn’t less than one percent of Nokia’s annual R&D budget and Nokia hadn’t shifted 60% more Symbian devices than they did this time last years.

But it is, they did and so you don’t.

This is for embedded devices by the way, not phones.