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The number of Symbian users means absolutely nothing, because they're not worth anything as they're not buying into an ecosystem. The Symbian devices sold are
by foobarbazetc 16y ago
The number of Symbian users means absolutely nothing, because they're not worth anything as they're not buying into an ecosystem.
The Symbian devices sold are basically 'done' -- they'll never improve, and the person using them is basically never going to buy a single app or a piece of content for them. A much better comparison would be total revenue of the Ovi Store against all the other stores. That means something.
I'll make this analogy:
I own an electronic door bell. It's made by a large multinational company who probably have sold way more than 200M of these -- but they just make widgets, and who gives a shit? That doesn't make it a viable platform.
The vast majority of Nokia phones running Symbian are just a door bell. They make calls and do the job, but that's about it.
- rkwz 16y ago>>A much better comparison would be total revenue of the Ovi Store against all the other stores. Here you go- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20032012-37.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20032012-37.html
- foobarbazetc 16y agoThat the Ovi Store is pulling in more revenue than the Android Market is insane. :) That says a lot about the sorry state of the Android Market, though. Would have been nice to see some Windows Phone Marketplace numbers in there too. Those Ovi Store numbers were probably quite encouraging to Microsoft. :)
- uytghjhgf 16y agoA phone that makes phone calls - how ridiculous
- foobarbazetc 16y agoIf that's all your phone does and that's your objective then great. Congratulations: you've won. But you're also stuck in 2007. If your objective is to make boatloads of money on a mobile ecosystem, that's not going to help.
- foljs 16y agoWould a car that only takes you places --but has no music system and no air-conditioning seem very compelling?