Symbian, a free operating system, mobile developers must be cherished. Instead, it continues to be an afterthought.
Symbian has spoken of his plans for open source about a year now, plans are put in a heart beat iPhone application store. But that has not happened. Instead, Symbian has stood aloof from the Apple App Store growing and even Google, Android, which the platform is still in its infancy, attracted developers with its Android Market.
Symbian, through Nokia Ovi Store ostensibly has its own store, too, but by the Nokia brand, and Nokia does much more than that Symbian support (not least because apparently Ovi Store does not distinguish between the Java and Symbian applications).
Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of mobile open-source Funambol leader Nokia in May suggests that the struggle to pay its Ovi Store, since it is a hardware company at heart. I am sure this is true, but it overlooks the big question: why not launch an application store Symbian rather than Nokia?
I asked Capobianco, who gave a very reasonable Symbian already has his hands full:
Symbian is busy. I do not think they have time to breathe: to try to build an operating system open source is not easy. Imagine building cloud services (as an application store) at the same time. No chance.
This is a good point, but not one that could appease community members Symbian, who have been calling for a Symbian application store for some time, but with little response. Symbian David Wood proposed in December 2008 that it will take time to unleash all his power, in May, but did not have time.
Symbian seems so far away from the game when he announced in June 2008 that it would open source its software. Since he was apparently headed down that the realization of the promise.
Unfortunately, the world is still moving, Symbian and the risks are left behind.
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