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Originally Posted by JMac
All that I will comment on is that having been involved in development of Symbian software, it is beyind any shadow of a doubt a dead-end career.
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And yes - Symbian does make phones... Nokia = Symbian. Nokia founded the platform and still holds a majority - and controlling - share.  |
As an ex-Symbian developer (however briefly), I would have thought that you knew at least some basic history of the Symbian platform (and you would've known had you read some of the earlier posts). The Symbian platform was created by Psion (bless them) and is an evolution of their earlier Epoc platform (an incredibly stable, compact and powerful OS). The Symbian company began life with Psion as the largest shareholder with (can't remember) 3 or 4 phone makers each having an equal share of the rest. Psion then decided to pull out of Symbian to concentrate on their original core business of "industrial instruments" and sold their share to Nokia making them the largest shareholder.
As for Symbian (in your view, Nokia) withholding the APIs for the PIM stuff, logically, there is no reason for them to do so because they don't make any competing products (eg there is no Symbian-Outlook
). However (note I'm not a Symbian developer) I had a quick search and found this:
http://sw.nokia.com/id/30be96c4-cbcd..._APIs_v1_0.pdf
Quotes from it:
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This document explains how to utilize the calendar facilities on a Series 60 Platform device"
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For the developer, several different APIs are available for interaction with the agenda model. Combined, these APIs provide the full range of functionality required to use all of the model’s features."
Again, I'm not a Symbian developer so I've no idea whether the documented APIs are enough for your needs. Do you have any links which deal with the subject of "Symbian with holding APIs"? googling for "symbian withholding api" shows nothing interesting. NB links to your blog don't count (although they
may make interesting reading) - we want some unbiased 3rd party's info here
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