Jun 25 2008
Symbian’s not so bright furture
Despite the huge echo that yesterday’s press conference had in London, some analysts doubt that an open Symbian operating system could count on a quick and unconditional success.
One of them - Andrew Orlowski - shared his doubts worthy of attention in his article published by The Register. According to him, Nokia, the main initiator of the revolutionary process, may find it difficult - manufacturers of mobile phones may not want to contribute Nokia. Although established Symbian Foundation as a non-profit and no one owned company, the tone will be set by the producer from Finland.
Indirectly, this confirms the information about the mass dismissals in UIQ, which may indicate that UIQ in the “ecosystem” of Symbian will take extremely limited involvement.
There is a second aspect: the attention of the antimonopoly authorities. Given the extremely unstable situation of Motorola and recent problems with smartphones from Sony Ericsson, sharp-sighted European Union antitrust authorities may draw attention to the dominance of one company in the market. Since Symbian is not owned by different companies which are competitors, and it is controlled by Nokia - Finnish giant could fall into the position of the Microsoft.
