The Nokia drama meets apples
Because the mobile phone space which they are moving, in Nokia Company to fight for the developer’s mindshare and Symbian fund find they themselves among the rock and a firm place together.
On one hand, Nokia, biggest cellular telephone seller in the world, forces and plays with and meets apples. At Nokia developer’s summit meeting, nearly specially call Ovi on new service and appendix shop in the company, Nokia spokespeople lives. Though the mobile phone giant has already talked about the concept of Ovi in last two years, Nokia was not establishing Ovi shop finally until this month.
Apple, which be in cellular telephone business until 2007, clear, catch up with, have it succeed appendix whom shop does not watch out for flexible and diligent.
Careless iPhone claim operation at the up to they of latent energy 30% of income of developers regardless of plan of apple in one platform that close. The application program developer still seems to wish eagerly to develop the fairly good software for iPhone.
At the same time, Symbian Foundationcquired through Nokia last year, non-profit organizationaces increases the competition from the robot of google now. The robot, builds around Linux, through adjusting and controlling its charge free, discloses the future when the resource district is causing industry moved.
Symbian, is devoted to disclosing the resource area too. But ” This source thing made is really difficult, ” Williams Li that admit, last week Symbian executive director of fund in upper limit during meeting.
Every one and one different robots ” Green field ” Make great efforts to use the new code, Williams says Symbian must make much more ” The scrubing of its existing code ” The complete expert moves one to open the source developer’s its software brokenly before those Symbian funds.
The first, Symbian need, untie copyright and intellectual property right gather and with collection of the other person that Symbian realize in one enormous commercial softwareriginally, when it is that one are entity of the commerce of the profit, he explains.
Open the thing
See the range of the appendix moved today, one can want to know, whether ” A platform opened ” It is important to the application program developer of the cellular telephone to be true.
Symbian, is clear, believes the open resource area. Nokia, too, hopes to prove the still open thing at its summit meeting.
But one a close one check, reveal, have a slight one Symbian and difference of methods which Nokia take.
Moreover, Finnish giant, comb a piece of two forks of tactics through contracting, can attempt to sit on the fence. Supporting ” Open ” Philosophy is while promoting the software ” Unique to Nokia. ”
The first, Symbian OS will really go to make the source. The company nearly made that decision one year ago. That promises alone, however, do not really help Nokia now. It will not be very late until this year, initially, Symbian fund finishes that kind of transition and can really utilize the collective hard in disclosing the resource district.
Secondly, connect in parallel, Nokia is making the positive efforts in exposing its own platform ” To its supreme level, ” According to robbing Taylor, head of forum Nokia. ” We want developers to set up the appendix of the apparatus which distinguish us, ” He adds.
Nokia’s plan here ” Open, ” But only the advantage of the own platform to it is and its improvement.
