If you didn’t make the Symbian Smartphone Show this year or if, like me, you only spent part of a day there and didn’t get to see many of the presentations, then you can now view them online:
Vodafone Group recently announced that CEO Arun Sarin would be retiring from his post in the near future, but two of Sarin's most recent speeches (at Mobile World Congress and the last CTIA show) will continue to resonate throughout the industry in the years to come. Sarin challenged the industry to whittle down the number of platforms or operating systems currently supported for mobile phones.
There’s an entertaining piece at the Inquirer about analyst firm J. Gold Associates predicting Symbian and Android will merge…
"Gold believes the ‘true’ open version of Symbian won’t be available for around 18-24 months, allowing time for the two code bases to be consolidated into a superior open-source product."
Unbelievable - at least technically as well as politically. Android and Symbian OS implementations are so technically different that it would make merging them a foolhardy endeavour. If even it were possible, the result would be a Frankenstein OS that would be difficult to understand and maintain. Where do people get these wild ideas? It’s madness.
