For the most part, analysts have given their thumbs up on the news of the creation of the Symbian Foundation, seeing it as a positive for both Nokia and the industry, and a competitive threat to Android, LiMo and Microsoft
The analysts at Strategy Analytics, for example, expected this development to lead to less platform fragmentation across the industry, with Symbian becoming a global standardized operating system with a unified user-interface. This will lead to reduced development times for vendors, lower handset prices, more and speedier innovation, and an expanded global smartphone market.
Funny to hear that Microsoft is warning the public that an open-source model will lead to fragmentation for Symbian. "They're opening themselves up to some of the same challenges of all open source projects," said Scott Rockfeld, group product manager for Microsoft's Mobile Communications Business. The Microsoft executive points to the various splintered Linux versions and groups that exist.
But hey, could this just be taken as good free advice from Microsoft? The Linux Foundation can help prevent this from happening from the get go.
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