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kureyon	2011-01-30 , 06:22
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Originally Posted by Creamy Goodness

I really don't want an Intel branded phone...

Don't worry, you won't see one this half of the decade, unless you want to carry a car battery with you to power it.

Originally Posted by droitwichgas

interesting that Nokia apparently spend as much as google and Apple combined on development and you just have to wonder where all that money goes looking at the present state of symbian. and to a lesser extend meego?

Is this total R&D spend in the whole company or just on Symbian? Anyway I suspect Nokia spends a lot of resources on hardware R&D. Apple on the other hand "only" needs to pay some interns to dream up some frivolous patents that they could apply for under Jobs' name

Originally Posted by ysss

Who are these fabled 'stockholders' that you mentioned?
Are they forever bound to their stocks, until the end of time?

It used to be that stockholders really do have a stake in the company and invest in it for the medium to long term. Unfortunately these days the market is driven mostly by high speed trading and "investment" bwankers.

Originally Posted by bugelrex

Anyone know how the engineering teams for Symbian are split? Do they have 10+ teams doing duplicate work but for different phones?

I'm not sure whether it is still the case now, but they have separate and non-cooperating divisions. Eg when the "multimedia" division responsible for the N Series makes a spanking new gallery app and the "enterprise" division responsible for the E Series asks to use it they would be told to get lost and write their own

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