![]() Android seems to be a logical choice, since it's pretty open and free - however I wouldn't put WinMo7 out of the running either here since the previews show it to be pretty promising. Or, they can adopt a major OS that's already out there for their phones. Nokia has a two options - they can make YET another OS, or improve Symbian. In asian markets where they were so solid, and also in Europe, Samsung is making a huge leap at them in not only build quality, but also eeking away their market share. That said, it won't keep them afloat forever. Symbian is on its way out - Nokia makes money because it's a patent whore like Microsoft, but actually has *real* patented designs that aren't in software alone. Fixing multitasking and improving the user experience aren't mutually exclusive efforts. The developers who are working on multitasking at the kernel level, for example, are probably not trained as designers and might not even have much familiarity with the userspace software stack at all. There are a lot of developers working on Symbian, but not all of them are infinitely versed in every aspect of the platform. Jones' concerns about the Symbian Foundation's pacing and priorities are well-founded, but the issue isn't as simple as he makes it sound. "The situation is now serious enough that any developer who isn't working on something directly related to a new UI is wasting their time." What I see is too much effort on stuff that really doesn't matter," he wrote. I just looked on the Foundation web site and blogs at the roadmap and features for future releases. "So if the weak UI is threatening Symbian's very survival the Foundation ought to be seriously worried, right? Wrong. He complains that developers shouldn't be wasting time on projects like improving multitasking and internal architecture while the poor user experience continues to cripple the platform's chances of success. The user experience is still too weak, he says, and he doesn't think that the Symbian Foundation can afford to wait until 2011 to address that issue with S^4. He says that the mobile platform is losing market share at an accelerated pace and that the upcoming Symbian^3 update isn't going to remedy the platform's fundamental lack of competitiveness. ![]() Gartner analyst Nick Jones has issued a wake-up call to Symbian's backers in a recent blog entry. The Symbian Foundation's efforts to revitalize the platform-improving both the user experience and developer tools-is moving forward, but it may not be fast enough to save the platform from irrelevance. Although Symbian still holds the crown as the world's most widely used smartphone mobile operating system, it is rapidly losing ground to more modern alternatives.
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