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The Symbian Foundation launchesThe Symbian Foundation launchesPosted Jun 25, 2008 7:41 UTC (Wed) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)In reply to: The Symbian Foundation launches by kripkenstein Parent article: The Symbian Foundation launches
Trying to define 'Nokia's position' in these terms is pretty pointless: the current line of devices includes four platforms, being the hyper-cut-down-still-written-in-ASM S30 for the ultrabasic phones, S40 for the basic general-purpose phones, S60 for smartphones and 'multimedia computers', and Linux for the Maemo devices. So yes, you could argue that 'Nokia's position' is to push Symbian as hard as possible everywhere they can based on this. However, you'd have to argue that based on past form, their position is to push S30 absolutely everywhere, given its dominant marketshare. Or that their position is to push Symbian absolutely everywhere, given the amount of marketing dedicated to the N series in particular. Or that their position is to push Linux as much as possible, given that they built the Maemo platform from the ground up (obviously building on existing open source projects and components, but a first for Nokia). The reality, as always, is rather more complex. :) (Nokia employee, not speaking for Nokia.)
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The Symbian Foundation launches Posted Jun 25, 2008 8:44 UTC (Wed) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link] I don't doubt that, but you still have to have a strategy. It took IBM 15 years to unify their hardware under POWER, but it was an obvious choice in the long run. I don't think that Nokia wants to keep their current platform diversity in a tightening market for too long. They are obviously exploring options, so one can't really help speculating...
The Symbian Foundation launches Posted Jun 25, 2008 9:13 UTC (Wed) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link] Sure, no-one said that a strategy wasn't important. I don't think, however, that a strategy means 'all your eggs in one basket'. The majority of Nokia's marketshare is still tiny phones which are as cheap as possible to both produce and sell, and run a custom OS consisting entirely of handwritten ASM, as the hardware isn't capable of running a real OS. There's a big need/demand for this, especially in emerging markets, so it's clearly very important. However, given that, you wouldn't really say that all Nokia products should be running S30: it clearly doesn't scale to the high end. Nor do S60 or Linux scale to the extremely low end.
The Symbian Foundation launches Posted Jun 25, 2008 21:39 UTC (Wed) by trasz (guest, #45786) [Link] IBM unified it's hardware. Actually not all of it - mainframes are still separate. It did nothing to unify it's software, or operating systems - they still develop and support _seven_ of them, if I count correctly.
The Symbian Foundation launches Posted Jun 27, 2008 16:31 UTC (Fri) by jordanb (subscriber, #45668) [Link] Last I saw the IBM mainframe machines were POWER devices with a different interface (one that is a superset of the S/390 instruction set).
The Symbian Foundation launches Posted Jun 30, 2008 6:35 UTC (Mon) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link] Probably you mean iSeries (which use POWER CPUs as well as pSeries), not zSeries which I am sure are still much more different from POWER.
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