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Symbian in Brazil was rapidily climbing in popularity when MS killed it. It had 60% of phone market share and it was RISING despite the launch of iPhone and An
by speeder 6y ago
Symbian in Brazil was rapidily climbing in popularity when MS killed it.
It had 60% of phone market share and it was RISING despite the launch of iPhone and Android.
The reason is that:
1. It worked great.
2. Brazil had a vibrant dev community (people would even port PC games to Symbian O.o)
3. It was much cheaper than iPhone and clones.
4. Nokia phones were just solid and awesome.
After MS made that memo that killed Symbian, it died almost instantly, people got so disappointed with MS that they started to switch to android, even if it was some chinese-made "shit-phone" instead of "feature-phone", the amount of really, really crappy androids that flooded the market was mind boggling, many didn't even work right, for example wouldn't complete calls properly or wouldn't connect to some Wi-Fi channels.