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What is surprising is that Symbian did not manage to pivot to embedded market in any way, to compete with VxWorks and its likes. It was a fairly advanced RTOS a
by zokier 4y ago
What is surprising is that Symbian did not manage to pivot to embedded market in any way, to compete with VxWorks and its likes. It was a fairly advanced RTOS at it's heart afterall, and proven to work well on ARM platforms.
- miohtama 4y agoSymbian started as an embedded platform “OS for toasters.” It was independent, used by mobile phone manufacturers like Sony, Ericsson, others. It was also used in non-mobile phone applications. Nokia bought the whole Symbian in-house in attempt to compete against Android and iOS. Others non-Apple brands had already switched to Android in this point. Steven Elop joined Nokia had a had management bonus incentives to sell the Nokia Mobile Phones (not Networks) to Microsoft. Which he did. It was good for Nokia shareholders. Few years later Microsoft had screwed up things even worse and wrote Nokia purchase value from $7B to zero. In this point, Symbian was buried long ago. Microsoft had never incentive to spin it out or make it a success story. Their only goal was Windows dominance.
- zokier 4y ago> Symbian started as an embedded platform “OS for toasters.” Nope. Symbian started as an initiative to get Psions palmtop OS to cellphones; larger embedded market was never a consideration.