The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia assumes the operating system developer Symbian and wants out of the smartphone operating system an open software platform . make Nokia, the consortium already 50% was involved, said on Tuesday that the majority of Symbian's shareholders the takeover bid has been accepted.
Nokia's goal now will be to unite the fragmented landscape of Symbian Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP to a single open mobile platform. The question of the future of Symbian, which has been increased in view of the imminent release of Google's Android mobile operating system would then be answered. But not only the impending competition with Google's Android, the existing competition with Windows Mobile and Linux-based mobile phone operating systems may have contributed to this decision. To realize
the Open Source concept, Symbian is converted into a foundation. Membership of this non-profit organization is expressly open to all organizations. Selected components are now with the launch of the foundation as Open Source will be released in a row and will be working to meet all the requirements to offer a range of software for mobile devices.
It will be interesting what this surprising development for the mobile software market long term. Google's Android platform is not even on the market, and already under pressure. Strategically, this move was Nokia's exactly the right time. Users can we are delighted to Symbian in the future to be found a broader range of software. Evt. raises also the nice side effect of the free open source software concept and thus the corresponding appliances are cheaper.
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