Hi all
Has the man who gave us 'Rebooter' etc decided to dump developing for symbian?
Goto his site, & all you see now is a page saying 'time to say goodbye'?
Anyone, know what he's decided here & why? - anyone understand the local language that the additional writing says. It probably says 'why' he's stopping developing symbian? (if he is?)
Cheers
Xoio
Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com) translation: "I withdrew myself from the Communicator world and also with the developing of software stopped. This because the Commi world is actually illusorydead and all developers give this Platform up have. Then there are also certain forum bosses, ala the exclusive stone of the wisdom specifies itself... This web page has pure private purpose in the future!"
Hmmmm so what he's basically saying is that developers are NOT really bothering to develop for this platform (series 80 i assume), so therefore why should he bother..... as he would be paddling against the tide if he does.....
Fair enough..... a shame though.
xoio
What a pity!! 😞
Roman, Kommen Sie Zuryck, bitte! 😊
It is sad to say. But isn't he completely right?
The battle will be won by WM 5 and new qwerty machines.
After, I don't know how many, years and dollars put in Symbian machines, I myselve, have decided to jump on the MDA IV as soon as it comes out.
Huib
Huib van den Oever wrote:It is sad to say. But isn't he completely right?
The battle will be won by WM 5 and new qwerty machines.
After, I don't know how many, years and dollars put in Symbian machines, I myselve, have decided to jump on the MDA IV as soon as it comes out.
Huib
No, the battle will be won by Symbian OS smartphones. They already have something like 70% of market share of all mobile devices sold worldwide.
No idea why Roman gave up, but the Symbian OS world needs more developers, not less.
Only fly in the ointment is the new plans for OS 9 and forced signing of apps, but that's another battle for another day.
Steve Litchfield
slitchfield wrote:Only fly in the ointment is the new plans for OS 9 and forced signing of apps, but that's another battle for another day.Symbian OS 9 supports unsigned apps just fine; in general, unsigned apps just won't be able to do things without the user giving the app explicit permission to do so, but there are also privileged functions/features that cannot be used execept from signed apps. Overall, however, there is no forced signing by the OS.
slitchfield wrote:No, the battle will be won by Symbian OS smartphones. They already have something like 70% of market share of all mobile devices sold worldwide.No idea why Roman gave up, but the Symbian OS world needs more developers, not less.
Only fly in the ointment is the new plans for OS 9 and forced signing of apps, but that's another battle for another day.
Steve Litchfield
Of course the battle will be won by Symbian.
But I personally will buy a WM 5 system. But you are right: Symbian is much much better and has many more phones on the market.
Huib
Huib van den Oever wrote:Of course the battle will be won by Symbian.
But I personally will buy a WM 5 system. But you are right: Symbian is much much better and has many more phones on the market.Huib
Whichever platform he defected to, it seems it didn't work out and he's back on his trusty Communicator - check his web site! 8-))
Steve Litchfield
yes he thanks allot for many mails that reached him...so he will start developement as soon as he has a new comunicator -he also said he would be happy if somebody spend some money or properbly a commi...