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Nokia ditching Symbian for !Maemo, German FT reports http://is.gd/2bTDb
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@bigbrovar And maemo going the Qt way, now you can see something useful in trolltech buyout by Nokia
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@nambuls yep .. future is qt
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@bigbrovar I highly doubt that nokia will drop !symbian http://ur1.ca/8v4c a bit of an old article but worth mentioning !nokia
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@marxistvegan i actually feel the article makes some valid points though !symbian is tool old to meet the challanges of a modern mobile OS
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@bigbrovar I agree with some of the points, but !symbian recently discussed it's future and it's Symbian^4 http://ur1.ca/8v9i
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@marxistvegan look at the case of the N97 its crap compared to the palmOS, android or even the iphone OS
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@marxistvegan yeah i saw that.. we !symbian will not be discontinued .. i feel it would just be relegated and !maemo would have the momentum
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@bigbrovar that may be true, but it does depend on how the opensourcing of symbian goes. I haven't played with maemo yet, would if I could
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@marxistvegan well the opensource of !symbian ihmo is a bad sign, handing it over to the symbain foundation while maemo is still nokia
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@marxistvegan 20million codebase? unless !symbian^4 is a complete rewrite from ground up .. it as gotten to its elasticity limit imho
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@bigbrovar well I'm no programmer but it does involve shifting from avkon UI to QT UI & will break all previous symbian apps, so it might be
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@bigbrovar just came across this !nokia is fully committed to !symbian http://gigaom.com/2009/08/11/nokia-fully-commited-to-symbian/
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