Slow Symbian product ramp turning off ISVs, says AvantGo

Can you explain it to me in plain english?!?
I don't speak good enlgish and I'm far away to understand! (Greece)
Please? ;p

Thanks!
Coolmatter

To simplify it, it really boils down to

Companies have products ready for release on the Symbian platform, but because no-one but Nokia has produced any competing hardware, they don't think they will make much, if any, money, and so are not releasing the software yet.

That said though, Symbian are still ahead of the game as all the phone manufacturers are it's partners and they all seem to be ignoring M$ (for the greater good of phonekind).

I am worried that for some reason, people don't see Micro$oft as a threat.

Nokia et al cannot afford to sit on Symbian while promising the world.

We all know Symbian is a better OS, but apart from the 9210, we have nothing to compete with the line that Micro$oft fanboys are taking; "<I>You know this PocketPC of mine that plays music and video and games? Well, the same thing is soon going to be on your phone!</I>". Against such an argument, the uninformed can say nothing.

We know that video on a PocketPC is as smooth as lego and sound drains the batteries quicker than the time it takkes to say "PocketPC Suck", but the wow factor is there for them to show off... and to show off in quantity.

I really, really don't want Symbian to go the way of Amiga and, (if they don't get their finger out), Palm.

Micro$oft <I>is</I> a threat. If it had quality devices to fight with, we'd be able to fight back, but it doesn't. It uses media propaganda, sound bites and dirty tricks. It has enough money to keep it fighting for many years of loss making marketing, so let's see some more Symbian devices out there, soon, or we'll end up with more of the same.... boring, bland, unimaginative products with the form factor of a yorkshire pudding, demanding an annual hardware upgrade with little to show in return for the user.<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by TANKERx on 2002-03-01 1720 ]</font>

I think it's fairly obvious that M$ <I>need</I> a device that compete in the market to achieve anything, and it's also obvious that PDA companies don't have the expertise required to compete in the market. M$ aren't in a position here like they had when the PC market took off.

We all know that Symbian OS is the best technical solution for smartphones. The problem is the "best" doesn't sadly always win. Apple used to be a decade ahead of MS but they lost and now they are nowhere. The moral of the message for Symbian is that there is a WAR on and they have to fight hard and dirty to win. That means they MUST win the propaganda war against MS and show the hardware manufacturers that their business will be destroyed if MS takes control. On a more sinister level MS have plans to control the full software spectrum in order to master eCommerice; and impose an MS eCommerice tax. I'll let you decide if it's good or bad, but the way I see it is that MS is BAD for technological progress - and whatever the crap paid up MS brown-nose people tell you, they are NOT on our side...The consumer, that is.