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Originally Posted by desertrat_blog
...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  . |
To start, here are some links on this subject from Miake Raento's Blog. Mike is a professor at the University of Helsinki, and a Symbian software developer:
Symbian programming posting #1
Symbian programming posting #2
Symbian programming posting #3
Symbian programming posting #4
And
here is a news article from Feb 2004 regarding Nokia's ownership of Symbian. This was when Nokia purchased Psion's last ownership shares, giving them 63.3% ownership of Symbian. The other "minority owners" balked loudly and later that year, in July 2004, Nokia agreed to give up 13.5% in order to maintain a "just-under-50%" share. But maybe that really doesn't count as a majority in that part of the world. It sure does where I am.
Oh, BTW, Siemens is giving up their share in Symbian, and And Panasonic and BenQ will shortly be giving up their shares also as they move into Linux (Panasonic) and Windows Mobile development (BenQ). So the remaining shareholders are now scrambling, as Nokia stands to possibly gain even more.
This is a quote from
this article at technewsworld.com: "The Symbian operating system lacks the programming tools and development environment needed so third parties can write applications."
I could go on...
...but I won't. This is getting silly. Go play with your Symbian device, and I'll go enjoy my WM device.
