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The number of developers giving a damn about Symbian, compared to those who do Android and iOS is probably less by 4 or 5 orders of magnitude, that's why no one
by pooriaazimi 14y ago
The number of developers giving a damn about Symbian, compared to those who do Android and iOS is probably less by 4 or 5 orders of magnitude, that's why no one is talking about Symbian.
We're not living in a dream world, many are trying to be realistic and compare the two most vibrant and important platforms because they have to make a call in their startups: Do I want to develop for iOS, or Android, or both, or first iOS and then Android. Most people on HN are developers and try not to be as stupid as average commenter on Engadget, falling into pointless, grad-scholl-link arguments about whose platform is cooler.
- buster 14y agoYou had me at "We're not living in a dream world, many are trying to be realistic". My whole discussion thread is about being realistic. Is it realistic to have exactly one OS version deployed worldwide on hundreds of differenct device models created by dozens of different manufacturers with dozens of different hardware configurations ranging from low-end to high-end? No, it is absolutely not. And so noone should complain about that ghost named "fragmentation" because it's a stupid discussion and it's an unfair comparison.