I primarily think it is a bad focus for this type of cash. You say it is not worth much for Symbian, in light of other money spent on it. So why give it the mon

I primarily think it is a bad focus for this type of cash. You say it is not worth much for Symbian, in light of other money spent on it. So why give it the money then? If you spent the same amount of money on other embedded software efforts, where 22M Euro would be a lot, then I predict you would get a lot more value for money. I don't resent big government money as such being spent on technology, but this seems badly placed. Who in their right mind would start developing new embedded systems on Symbian today? (I am by no means an embedded OS expert, but talking to my friends who develop on mobile phones, Symbian is decidedly long in the tooth these days. I can't see that it will be that much better as an embedded system. Also, see enjo's comment below on developing in Symbian.)