Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Why did Nokia buy Simbian

Posted by Old Father William at 9:19 PM
To compete with iPhone, Windows CE, and Android (the Google platform)

Compete is probably the wrong word. Nokia is already leading in the handheld platform space and they'd like to keep it that way.

Actually, I really like the design of many symbian devices. Ironically this has nothing to do with the software platform but more with the London industrial design aesthetic. I guess there is nothing ironic about that. It's my birthday buddy Alanis Morisette confusing the concept of irony again.

For the record, "Irony" is the state of a shirt after its been ... y'know
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