> In theory Symbian had huge potential as a vendor-independent smartphone OS. Did you try to develop for Symbian? It's a very painful memory of mine. It seem

> In theory Symbian had huge potential as a vendor-independent smartphone OS. Did you try to develop for Symbian? It's a very painful memory of mine. It seemed to be highly optimised for a very memory constrained environment. Granted the phones it ran on were very memory constrained, but ... shudder. Worse, in a few years it memory would not be so much of an issue and all those optimisations would turn into shackles.