Symbian has the market in Europe and the Middle East proved to be a strong competitor, but it in North America and Japan, but it falls short of the performance of the market, although it occupies in the global market share of 50 percent. Part of the reason is, Symbian will be the goal of their own restrictions on the introduction of GSM network operators in the United States (AT & T and T-Mobile). Due to the lack of CDMA products, Symbian can not be trying hard to develop the U.S. market.

June 2008, Nokia announced, Symbian will be open source strategy and to strengthen the attractiveness of the developers. This process takes 2 years to complete. Even today, Symbian open source is still not achieved, but it is towards this goal has been active in the effort.

Unfortunately, the Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry Palm Pre even have started to seize the global smartphone market, and compete for the European market Symbian backyard. But Wood was not very worried. In this regard, he has good reason.

Plenty of time

While we hope that the rapid development of science and technology can, in fact, its popularity has much slower process. Even if such turbulence in the browser market, Mozilla director of community development and more????assa (Asa Dotzler) also pointed out that the popularity of the browser very slowly.

To prove their point of view, Wood pointed out that before the appearance of Palm Pre Apple iPhone has always been seen as the product is unique. However, with regard to the lack of basic function iPhone criticism will follow. Does not support multi-tasking? Does not support copy and paste? Refueling, Apple!

To do this, Apple released the iPhone 3G S. Pre release but indicate that there is no suppression of Apple and the field of innovative mobile phones. If the correct method of Symbian, but also as an application in terms of publishers, to offer attractive value, then it will have ample time to rival the existing smart phones launched a severe challenge.

Intermediary services

Symbian does not plan to release a similar application with the Apple store. Instead, they want to be able to play with the book publishers similar role: in the application developers and mobile operators to provide intermediary services. Such strategies will not only provide more available for Symbian devices, but also for the case of mobile operators, Symbian has to become more valuable than the Apple partnership.

Of course, this does not mean that Symbian will be successful, but in its introduction of open-source project, Wood really should remain calm. Stagnation of the world have not yet, please wait for the arrival of Symbian. On the other hand, the forward speed of the world may not, as we might think as quickly.

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