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2011-02-19 , 00:48
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Originally Posted by BigBadGuber! View Post
Beautifully said. I think that many arguments here are by bruised European egos that cant stomach the fact that Nokia decided to abandon Symbian for american OS, WP7. Forget about Europe vs. America. NOKIA did the right thing by joining with MS. I bought N8 and I tell you its sitting in my glove compartment. Besides camera its OS is just not good enough to cut it in the competitive market. I also played with WP7, much more fluid, much more responsive than Symbian 3.
actually I am an American that can't stand the fact that nokia dropped all plans that nokia had sold to it's coustomers and developers for over a year in order to side with a company that has NEVER been a key player in the mobile market, who has less then a 5% market share, and to use an OS that is incomplete in a way that requires almost a year before they can get a device out using it.

As for symbian 3, the plan was that nokia would modernize and polish it over the next 12-18 months in stages and all current and future S3 handset owners would get the updates. This is what they were pitching to customers just 2-3 months ago, this is why people were buying the devices such as the N8, and why the E70 was an anticipated device. Of course that's dead now.

This is a win-win for NOKIA. They can still pursue their weegos and meegos and partner with MS that KNOWS how to do software engineering.
No nokia can't really work on meego still, you have to be joking yourself to think that given the scope of the deal that MS is not going to work in a no-compete clause. As far as MS knowing software engineering, I will agree they have some very talented people and do have some good products, but umm... Windows ME, Vista, IE, activeX, .net passport, kin, WP 6.x all crap from just the last 10 years so consistent they are not.

And Elop did the timing brilliantly. You dont want to sink with no return. Symbian is destined for history. Sure, masses will still use it for another 5-6 years and you will get your support and so on. But just like any other OS, things change and WP7/8/9/10 will give everyone else run for their money. I would be excited to be at NOKIA know, with new beginning, new cash infusion and ability to work for innovators like MS
no his timing is crap, he should have quit the prior plan back in late september early October before nokia world and the meego event as to not mislead it's current and future customers and developers. Or they should have waited until they were close to releasing a WP device not 10-14 months away from having a device.

Symbian has no future according to the bar chart and wave graph nokia has released since the announcement. I say Symbian development rapidly declines at nokia over the next 3-6 months before it is outright ended altogether.

As for nokia and meego, that is all but finished after they release the device except perhaps a skeleton crew mainly working on it as a side project/hobby.