Thread: Another proof Elop is a trojan horse
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ericsson is offline ericsson
2011-07-08 , 16:54
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Originally Posted by patlak View Post
Just to clarify, Nokia makes both hardware and software. Symbian, Maemo and hopefully it continues down the line, Meego, are all Nokia made operating systems. And Symbian kills WP7 today even if it lacks UI candy. Just compare the sales. Why in the hell would you dump billions of users who are familiar with Symbian for an OS that loses sales by the day?

Also, you can google how many of those poor organisms (companies) survived in Microsoft's ecosystem.
Nokia bought Symbian in 2008. They open sourced it, a prime example of good closed source that didn't go anywhere as open source. Then they closed it and literally gave it away to accenture. Today accenture is in charge of maintenance and development, and things are actually happening again. IMO Symbian is still the best, and my E6 is the best device, but Symbian OS - the longer you can push Nokia software engineers and Nokia protocol away from it, the better it becomes. Why is it that Opera makes top notch browser for the E6 and Nokia still, after all these years, makes something I would call early alpha? The quality of software is directly related to the quality of the software engineers and architects.

Maemo has always been just a toy for Nokia, never meant to be anything else, and to be fair, Maemo is the brainchild of one single guy, and he is not at Nokia anymore. Harmattan looks beautiful though, so there has to be some talent there. MeeGo is, well, soaked in mud, maybe in 10 years time. MeeGo is starting to be the final proof that pure open source simply will not work in real life. The Summer release for instance, someone and everyone forgot that the OS needs a swap partition to work properly. I understand why Nokia has left MeeGo, it is a dead end. Maemo on the other hand, has a potential future, and the reason is that it was architected from the start by a top guy who made it the way he wanted.

Regarding Symbian, the problem is not that it isn't a good OS, the problem is that it's too difficult to work with, it takes too long time and cost too much to develop. Maybe they will fix it at accenture, I sure hope so, but objectively and honestly I think they would be much better off continuing with Maemo instead (NOT MeeGo). It sure as hell will be interesting to see how all this unfolds.

WP is for high end. Symbian is way too expensive and takes too long time. MeeGo is a dead end road. Neither MeeGo or Symbian is able to make Nokia compete at the top end. Maemo could compete, no problems, but the former CEO (as in NOT Elop) "killed" Mameo so they could go further with MeeGo instead. Elop has killed MeeGo, but as we all know, Maemo isn't really all that dead after all, far from it. And things are getting more confusing:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/...10_for_Sym.php
Meaning, things developed for the N9 could run on any Symbian device.