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#21
Originally Posted by tissot View Post
I don't actually get why people are worried about this announcement concerning N8? Nokia is expecting Symbian to be it's main OS/volume OS in 2011 already(taking S40 place). This is only about the positioning of the two OS's that both support Qt.
It superphone tunnel vision. It’s about people who simply are not aware about anything below Nseries (basically your average avid engadget reader), for them it sounds like a whole OS has been discontinued (which is very far from the truth). On the flip side, saying things like here DOES affect the N8 as it reinforces the image of Symbian as an outdated/unwanted OS. That’s why they should have not named it Symbian^* in the first place - devs know what it is no matter how it’s called, users THINK they know what it is, but in reality they don’t.
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