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LiMo Foundation Says It Welcomes the Symbian Foundation
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| This last point is important. While the LiMo Foundation's position on the
| Symbian news is high-minded, I still see it as essential for the LiMo
| Foundation and Android to have solid amounts of money going to application
| developers. Apple has a $100 million fund for that purpose, and RIM has a
| $150 million fund.
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| Absent best-of-breed applications, the LiMo Foundation and Android will have
| a tough time against the competition. One possible wrinkle here, though, is
| China. China represents a potentially huge market for handsets based on open
| source mobile platforms, at low price points. If China adopts LiMo- and
| Android-based handsets in a big way, growth in the market itself could help
| pave the way for success for these Linux-based platforms.
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http://ostatic.com/166156-blog/limo-foundation-says-it-welcomes-the-symbian-foundation
They forget to mention that LiMo's leader actually defected away from Symbian
(to Linux).
See the link below about Symbian predicting the death of the 'desktop'.
Related:
Symbian senior VP defects to mobile Linux
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| The LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation, an industry group building a common
| software stack for Linux-based mobile phones, today announced a dozen new
| members. The organization also disclosed that rival Symbian's longtime Senior
| VP of Sales and Professional Services, Morgan Gillis, will soon become its
| Executive Director.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8665166109.html
LiMo chief talks rivals, Nokia and mobile Linux
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| Do you think the Trolltech acquisition would lessen Nokia's reliance on
| Symbian?
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| I would tend to look at it with a slightly broader, more strategic view. We
| can all see that Nokia has, for the past two to three years, been
| concentrating its focus and investments and acquisitions on the
| user-experience layer — both the user interface and, through [Nokia's
| internet services platform] Ovi, the content as well.
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http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/features/0,1000002000,39292607,00.htm
Symbian forecasts the death of the PC
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| "Desktops PCs are effectively a flatlining commodity," Clifford
| said on Tuesday, while conceding that laptops were eliciting
| "perhaps a bit more" excitement.
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| [...]
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| "We see loads of keypad experimentation across vendors. That's
| a trend of innovation that will increase until people find
| solutions. It's clear that the numeric keypad has started to
| creak with the introduction of mobile e-mail," Forsyth said,
| describing the competition between various new input
| technologies--such as handwriting recognition and foldable
| keyboards--as "Darwinian."
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http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6126565.html?part=rss&tag=6126565&subj=news
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