And things do take a long time when it comes to Symbian.

Long before it was made open source, the platform had a well earned reputation for being hard to program. Yet the difficulty of writing good Symbian code was hugely beneficial to Symbian as a business in the early days. There was simply no incentive to provide an out of the box distribution, not until Android came along, enabling former Symbian licensees such as Motorola and SonyEricsson to put together new phones in mere weeks not years. Both operators and OEMs alike kidded themselves that they wanted a platform they could differentiate on. In reality, Android and now Windows Phone 7 proved that to be mere lip service, that they really needed someone who knew software to do it for them.

In theory changes made by the consulting teams were supposed to be folded back into the platform so it would become closer to a finished product over time. This almost never happened. Symbian attempted several times in later years, as telephony hardware became less bespoke, to address the problem, setting up teams specifically to create fully integrated distributions on various reference platforms, but usually done half-heartedly, outside core engineering and without enough resources.

The leadership did not have the will to make it work. But the consulting business was if anything just a nice side effect.

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The real root of the development problem with Symbian was that the APIs and tools roadmap were driven by the needs of kernel engineers and system integrators. It was not unusual to hear it spoken by senior staff that there would never be a market for after-market apps and games so why support third party developers?

Each died quickly. In turn, unlike at Palm, or Android today, there was no product manager representing the needs of third party developers. But even then, these were second class citizens on the platform, incomplete, poorly supported with tools, examples and documentation and most significantly not consistently available across all current devices.

Contrast that with Android where Linux drives the core phone technology, everything else, including the application suite, is developed for the Java runtime. Qt finally addresses this need but nearly 3 years after acquisition it is still unfinished. For Nokia now, the whole application suite for Symbian and for Meego needs to be migrated to Qt as quickly as possible because this will drive the discovery of new API requirements and improvements to the tools.

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Nokia has hundreds of developers working on Ovi Maps, successfully commoditising the SatNav market in a short space of time. But Ovi Maps is done. Those developers should be flat out on building out the whole application stack in Qt. The Psion Series 5 won design awards and many remember the P fondly, while the UIs of Japanese Symbian devices made European phones look positively prehistoric until the iPhone came along.

By , Symbian had recruited a world class design team, including experts from Apple, Psion, Ericsson and many other talented mobile UX designers. Technologies such as universal messaging AKA visual voicemail , voice search, location sharing, augmented reality and context sensitive widgets were running in that lab years before other platforms popularised them.

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Nokia already controlled Crystal anyway. The embryonic Pearl was abandoned it did not, as many suppose, evolve into S Quartz was spun off formally as UIQ. The UI design team were mostly laid off. Internally, Symbian used the old Series 5 UI for testing with Nokia later merging this together with Crystal to make the aborted S90 touch screen variant. Of course, with the line between S60 and Symbian so blurred, as far as the user is concerned the user experience is a Symbian attribute and again the difficulty of development can take some of the blame.

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S60 in particular was written in a hurry by developers new to Symbian for the Nokia and its UI API, Averell, did not adhere to the elegant design design followed by Quartz and Crystal. In the interests of backwards compatibility, bad design decisions were never fixed preventing developers from having the time to iterate and refine their UI designs or even just to concentrate on the value adding features of their apps instead of fighting the platform.

But how does Nokia fit into all this? They were often said to be pulling the strings behind the scenes. When they finally bought Symbian it was because the threshold at which it was cheaper to buy it outright rather than continue to pay license fees had been met.

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It was their spending power. Nokia outspent the other licensees all together by something like 4 to 1 in terms of license fees for volumes sold and in terms of consulting. But it influenced the behaviour and decisions made within Symbian all the time. Jun 16, 5. Jun 16, 6. Jun 16, 7. Jun 17, 8. Not spending time and resources developing for a dying platform isn't cheap, it's smart. Apr 4, 9.

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Symbian's death is grossly exaggerated. Apr 4, Apr 8, Jul 31, Last quote was 4 months ago, any news? Aug 12, Aug 29, Agreed, it is old and isn't optimised for touch support. Sep 22, Wow, what was that one weird thing that guy put about Symbionese? Jan 10, Hi,I have the same problam Is old java mobiles hasn't died yet and s60 is dead??? And also it's not a matter of future it's about the support of costumers Log In or Join.

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