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Well yes? Symbian didn't die for no reason. Developers mostly described it as a pain to develop to it
by raverbashing 1y ago
Well yes?
Symbian didn't die for no reason.
Developers mostly described it as a pain to develop to it
- RobotToaster 1y agoWasn't a large part of that due to networks wanting a large cut of sales revenue?
- ezst 1y agoLet's not fool ourselves into saying that Android development isn't miserable in its own many ways
- fsflover 1y agoIndeed, which is why Mobian and PureOS exist.
- rstuart4133 1y ago> Let's not fool ourselves into saying that Android development isn't miserable Yes, Android's UI framework is miserable. But if you are going to use misery to describe the Android experience, I'm at a loss on what word would be used to describe Symbian. What is 10 times worse than misery? Symbian was a C++ templated nightmare solution only suited to a very memory constrained environment. My wild speculation is it grew out organically out this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Organiser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Organiser The lengths they went to make perfect sense for a device like that. But in a much bigger device designed robustly host 3rd party apps written in the same style, it was insanity.