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Nokia had a chance, but their developer experience was terrible. They should have invested in it. And also open source. They could have open sourced their platf
by tananaev 4y ago
Nokia had a chance, but their developer experience was terrible. They should have invested in it. And also open source. They could have open sourced their platform and compete with Android.
What did they do instead? They made an extremely stupid bet on Microsoft, which by that time was even further behind in mobile world than Nokia itself.
- toast0 4y agoSymbian was open sourced at one point and before that, available for others to make phones with, SonyEricsson had a couple, I think there were one or two others as well. The Nokia linux phones were open sourceish as well, in partnership with Intel. Open or closed source wasn't the problem, really.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago> I think there were one or two others as well Motorola A925, Motorola A1000, Motorola RIZR Z8, Motorola RIZR Z10 (aka 'banana') https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Motorola+Z8&t=ffcm&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Motorola+Z8&t=ffcm&iar=images&iax=...
- panick21_ 4y agoIf your platform is trash just opening it up doesn't matter. And their linux based phones were pretty open but they had no power in the organization and having an open source platform with no phones is pointless.