The Symbian platform! Does anyone remember it's glory? This is still the most successful Mobile OS platform ( Update 1/31/2011 ) but it's drastically loosing it's market share to giants like iOS and Android. It might be a little astonishing, but Symbian OS was one of the first ones that came up with the concept of apps. And it did have a well established app library. It had an app for almost everything. I remember having a ton of apps and games on my Nokia N70, none of which i bought. Websites like getjar.com, etc made it very easy to download and install apps on your Nokia mobile phones using Nokia's PC Suite. Just like in the browser segment, how Netscape was made extinct, Symbian lost it's glory and has become stagnant.
Nokia did try coming up with touch based OSes and tried to attract developers to create apps but failed miserably. Reasons? Well, firstly Nokia was loosing it's market share in the smartphone segment which discouraged the developers, also other blooming platforms like the iOS distracted them from Symbian. Also, Nokia did not come up with very intuitive devices to attract consumers or developers. They were very functional and feature rich for sure, but weren't as user-friendly as its competitors.
Nokia and the Symbian Foundation have to act fast to keep up in this rat race or it's just a BYE to Symbian.
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ReplyDeleteI also used so many apps on my Nokia 6670 that I use now on my iOS. The only difference was I used buttons instead of touch. Apps like dictionary, photosafe, email, weathercheck and many more. It also had games that came so close to the augmented reality games on the iphone.
It pains me to see such a powerful platform failing to reinvent itself and dying. I hope it someday its resurrected and attains its past glory !!