Should Android and Symbian Unite?
According to analysts , mobile platforms Android and Symbian can become the basis for a single operating system, which will be distributed on the principle of Open Source. According to the forecast, Nokia and Google may agree within the next three to six months.
If Android and Symbian combine source codes in a single project, then other players in this market, such as the LiMo Foundation, can join them.
Jack Gold, who expressed such a thought (chief analyst at J. Gold Associates ), explains that he is guided solely by market analysis and not by some insider information. That is, of course, this is pure speculation. But in the reflections of Gold there is still a rational grain.
First, the emergence of a single open OS is vital for mobile device manufacturers. Currently, many manufacturers are sponsoring both the Open Handset Alliance (Android) and the Symbian Foundation, and the competition between mobile OSs is not included in their plans. They do not care what the OS will be, but the main thing is that the common platform will be able to bring the content market to a fundamentally new level: games, music, video and software. Combining efforts is beneficial for everyone: for Symbian, and for Google. Together, open source developers can effectively counter the threat from the Apple iPhone.
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Secondly, a series of recent events points to a possible merger of the Open Handset Alliance and the Symbian Foundation. Android SDK did not come out in time, that is, in the spring, as promised. It seems that Google is starting to understand how difficult it is to make a normal phone, and they are unlikely to be able to release their own phone, as promised, in the second half of 2008. Gold predicts that this will happen only next year. He says that obsession with Google on its own platform really inhibits the company's potential to create cross-platform applications that can generate good profits.
If Android and Symbian combine source codes in a single project, then other players in this market, such as the LiMo Foundation, can join them.
Jack Gold, who expressed such a thought (chief analyst at J. Gold Associates ), explains that he is guided solely by market analysis and not by some insider information. That is, of course, this is pure speculation. But in the reflections of Gold there is still a rational grain.
First, the emergence of a single open OS is vital for mobile device manufacturers. Currently, many manufacturers are sponsoring both the Open Handset Alliance (Android) and the Symbian Foundation, and the competition between mobile OSs is not included in their plans. They do not care what the OS will be, but the main thing is that the common platform will be able to bring the content market to a fundamentally new level: games, music, video and software. Combining efforts is beneficial for everyone: for Symbian, and for Google. Together, open source developers can effectively counter the threat from the Apple iPhone.
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Secondly, a series of recent events points to a possible merger of the Open Handset Alliance and the Symbian Foundation. Android SDK did not come out in time, that is, in the spring, as promised. It seems that Google is starting to understand how difficult it is to make a normal phone, and they are unlikely to be able to release their own phone, as promised, in the second half of 2008. Gold predicts that this will happen only next year. He says that obsession with Google on its own platform really inhibits the company's potential to create cross-platform applications that can generate good profits.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/30277/
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