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Not saying it didn't exist, but that it wasn't mainstream. Ask your mother if she's ever heard of Symbian phones...

by d--b 3y ago

DoingIsLearning 3y ago
That is a very US perspective. Nokia absolutely dominated the European market up to the 2010s.
- wil421 3y ago
  Nokia brick phones dominated the US market in the early 2000s. I’ve never seen a Symbian outside of magazines and internet tech writers. Symbian lost to iOS and Android within 2 years of release. Not to mention developers were never going to create apps for the platform.
  - hexomancer 3y ago
    What are you talking about? Symbian came out a decade before iPhone and was very widespread. Maybe you mean the Maemo operating system used in N900?
LeoPanthera 3y ago
She's certainly heard of Nokia phones, the majority of which (in later years) ran Symbian.
- Kiro 3y ago
  People associate Nokia with 3310. No-one associates it with smartphones.
Dah00n 3y ago
>Ask your mother if she's ever heard of Symbian phones... Ask your mother if she's heard of Variable Valve Timing or the equivalent for her brand of car OR ask her if she knows Linux or... for that matter ask yourself if you know the OS on Nokia 3310? Most mothers don't even know what a OS is. Edit: The OS is called "Series 40".
- brandall10 3y ago
  The difference is we're talking about a product category that has penetrated culture in a meaningful way, rather than tech that is meaningful to people with specialized knowledge. iPhone was ground zero for the general public consciousness in this space, it made this product category mainstream. It's silly to argue otherwise. Also variable valve timing was plastered on trunks of cars in the 80s so folks of a certain age should recognize the term, and Linux as a term seems pervasive enough that most people should at least have heard of it; they likely have no idea what those terms actually mean though.
esun 3y ago
This comment could be improved by addressing parents rather than mothers.
- sebzim4500 3y ago
  >Ask your parent if they've ever heard of Symbian phones definitely wasn't an improvement

Not saying it didn't exist, but that it wasn't mainstream. Ask your mother if she's ever heard of Symbian phones...

by d--b 3y ago

Not saying it didn't exist, but that it wasn't mainstream. Ask your mother if she's ever heard of Symbian phones...

DoingIsLearning 3y ago

That is a very US perspective. Nokia absolutely dominated the European market up to the 2010s.

wil421 3y ago
Nokia brick phones dominated the US market in the early 2000s. I’ve never seen a Symbian outside of magazines and internet tech writers. Symbian lost to iOS and Android within 2 years of release. Not to mention developers were never going to create apps for the platform.
- hexomancer 3y ago
  What are you talking about? Symbian came out a decade before iPhone and was very widespread. Maybe you mean the Maemo operating system used in N900?

LeoPanthera 3y ago

She's certainly heard of Nokia phones, the majority of which (in later years) ran Symbian.

Kiro 3y ago
People associate Nokia with 3310. No-one associates it with smartphones.

Dah00n 3y ago

>Ask your mother if she's ever heard of Symbian phones... Ask your mother if she's heard of Variable Valve Timing or the equivalent for her brand of car OR ask her if she knows Linux or... for that matter ask yourself if you know the OS on Nokia 3310? Most mothers don't even know what a OS is. Edit: The OS is called "Series 40".

brandall10 3y ago
The difference is we're talking about a product category that has penetrated culture in a meaningful way, rather than tech that is meaningful to people with specialized knowledge. iPhone was ground zero for the general public consciousness in this space, it made this product category mainstream. It's silly to argue otherwise. Also variable valve timing was plastered on trunks of cars in the 80s so folks of a certain age should recognize the term, and Linux as a term seems pervasive enough that most people should at least have heard of it; they likely have no idea what those terms actually mean though.

esun 3y ago

This comment could be improved by addressing parents rather than mothers.

sebzim4500 3y ago
>Ask your parent if they've ever heard of Symbian phones definitely wasn't an improvement