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2010-10-22 , 01:46
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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
Symbian is made from the ground to be a mobile OS. Linux is just a hack of an old OS for switchboards. Symbian is better integrated with hardware and runs more efficient. Better processors and HW in general makes this difference smaller, especially or high end devices, and Linux is much simpler and more flexible. Linux is like Windows (desktop), sloppy, imprecise and power hungry (but powerful with enough CPU), and Symbian is more like a real time OS similar to Windows CE.
Apple's iOS is based on BSD and it would appear to have made a far better mobile OS than Symbian. Android is based on Linux, similarly make its own waves. They both provided a far more middle-ground between phone and computer. If you hadn't noticed, it was because EVERYONE ELSE was doing something better than Symbian finally had to give in and evolve to play catch-up. By your reckoning, Symbian would STILL qualify as much of a modern OS as GEOS on a Commodore 64 was a modern OS when it tried to help the C64 modernize.
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