C-Net's Tom Krazit sat down with Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford a couple of days ago and the resulting interview is now online here, talking about elegant computing, USA market share, Google's Android and the iPhone, among other topics. Recommended reading!
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Poor man he thinks the iPhone helps them to get more market share in the US as people become smartphone-aware. No, they will lose share in Europe and Asia when more countries get the iPhone.
No, I think he's right. Having used both S60 and iPhone quite a lot, they're different in so many ways and there's plenty of market share for both. S60's main competition worldwide comes from the increasingly capable feature phone market.
Steve
Come on, Steve, you know there's no point in putting rational arguments in front of him and his like. That's like asking a football fan to consider if, just possibly, his team aren't actually the best in the land.
Dont take trolls seriously Steve.
USA is a flegling mobile phone market, they havent been used to smarthphones as europe has so it will take a while till things get normalised. Such is the reason iphone too hold quickly, they just had nothing better on their shores at the time.
Kinda funny seeing that they are just starting to use bluetooth in the mainstream....reminds me of the days of the Nokia 6230.
Interesting read.
Yeah, just read it now; interesting. I love the description of Apple as a "legacy hardware brand".
However, I think the interviewer let him off the hook somewhat by not mentioning the shambles that is Symbian Signed. As the US market gets off the ground, this is a critical time, and if they don't sort themselves out, there's going to be a lot of pissed-off developers turning to other platforms.
Things missing are : how hard it is to develop an application for Symbian, because really you have to develop for S60 or UIQ and then care for different firmwares all the time! Also, I agree no word on how Symbian Signed makes your life a missery and very expensive as well.
I think Symbian was more successful, because it was much more stable then Windows at the time and with Nokia behind was able to do more things.
Also, look at the Japan, NTT DoCoMo uses Symbian, but it is not open at all.