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attila77 is offline attila77
2010-08-18 , 11:17
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#54
Originally Posted by mahousaru View Post
Again with the whole world needs = my needs. How would a UI rewrite help on a candy bar phone?
Symbian^4 is not just an UI rewrite, it completely replaces the application layer. It means a completely different (easier, prettier, further-reaching, etc) development cycle, from tools to end-user experience. Of course it's too early to tell just HOW good it will be, but know that any conclusion you make based on an S60 Symbian experience WILL be wrong.

Also as a Symbian coder, surely the idea of selling cheap apps to the huge amount of Symbian low end phone owners is a little mouth watering? Ofc you need to come up with an app people want to buy
Actually, the money is in the services, not the apps. Think Eurovision, X Got Talent and similar. Think about SMS as an IM app. It is bog simple and stupid, and it rakes in billions of dollars in revenue exactly because it's omnipresent. If you make a Symbian app for a service that manages to increase revenue just by 1% you earned more money that the super-3D-fancypants appstore #1 bestseller. Admittedly less cool, but business is not only about cool. Just sayin'.
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