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| Nokia: Symbian in 'maintenance mode', no more development |
| By Thom Holwerda, submitted by Arto Salmi on 2012-10-15 21:15:01 |
| Well, that escalated quickly. I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, but I think Nokia has just revealed that Symbian is dead - dead as in, no more development. In a comment on a feature request for Symbian in Nokia's bug tracker, the company writes: "Thank you for your improvement ideas, thus Symbian is in maintenance mode and no new features will be implement without extremely good reason (business case). We have written down your ideas for future development if there is a chance that new features will be released." This means Symbian Belle FP2 is the last Symbian version. Odd, because Symbian devices are still being sold. |
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| Trojan Horse! |
| By Dekonega on 2012-10-15 22:04:16 |
| It's that trojan horse! He has orders to drive Nokia down, just like Richard "Microsoft Mole" Belluzzo did before him drove SGI down. |
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| symbian is dead anyway |
| By unclefester on 2012-10-15 22:21:25 |
| Why waste money on Symbian - a platform with no future? The future is WP8. |
| - Score: 2 |
| Symbian has been dead since it was given to Accenture |
| By moondevil on 2012-10-15 22:27:43 |
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This is nothing new. Giving the responsibility of Symbian development to Accenture was the typical way from Nokia to outsource legacy projects, most likely to an Indian or Chinese site from Accenture. |
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| RE: symbian is dead anyway |
| By Soulbender on 2012-10-15 22:43:32 |
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> The future is WP8 The future's so bright I gotta wear shades. |
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| RE: symbian is dead anyway |
| By winter skies on 2012-10-15 23:28:21 |
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So a slow, reversible decline was turned into a swift death. So sad. I won't list the reasons why I think Symbian still represents a valid technological alternative to other mobile OS's, yet I find it hard to accept that a real-time OS with Qt support is going to die this way. Will its source code forever sleep in some digital shrine, completely useless to mankind - or will it be eventually released? Sometimes I wonder how things would have worked out if there had been two competing companies, one pushing Symbian hard and the other restlessly developing MeeGo - maybe both OS's would still be around and innovating. |
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| RE[2]: symbian is dead anyway |
| By unclefester on 2012-10-15 23:40:55 |
| Have you seen the current Symbian phones? The hardware is five years out of date yet the prices are similar to decent Android phones. |
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| RE[2]: symbian is dead anyway |
| By Bill Shooter of Bul on 2012-10-15 23:45:17 |
| Wasn't it already released? I thought it was open sourced a while ago, only to be closed up again. |
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| RE[3]: symbian is dead anyway |
| By Soulbender on 2012-10-16 04:10:29 |
| You do realize that I was commenting on WP8 being the future, not Symbian being obsolete, right? |
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| RE[2]: symbian is dead anyway |
| By moondevil on 2012-10-16 04:43:37 |
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> So a slow, reversible decline was turned into a swift death. So sad. I won't list the reasons why I think Symbian still represents a valid technological alternative to other mobile OS's, yet I find it hard to accept that a real-time OS with Qt support is going to die this way. Will its source code forever sleep in some digital shrine, completely useless to mankind - or will it be eventually released? Sometimes I wonder how things would have worked out if there had been two competing companies, one pushing Symbian hard and the other restlessly developing MeeGo - maybe both OS's would still be around and innovating. Have you ever developed for Symbian? I would say it is everything but innovating, in what concerns developers. Symbian C++ and the 1001 ways to use certain APIs won't be missed. Qt was only available in specific handsets. Edited 2012-10-16 04:44 UTC |
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| New Phones Still Being Produced? |
| By abubasim on 2012-10-16 05:10:58 |
| So they stopped developing Symbian. Am I cynical in believing that they are still producing Symbian phones even though they have killed the OS? |
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