The folks at SymbianOne’s have managed to get a hold of Antony Edwards, the Vice President for developer product marketing.

Antony’s core message was that the Symbian Foundation is well aware of the value found in its developer ecosystem, and is more than willing to support it:

It’s important, as we have to be encouraging small developers and innovators, as well as more established small third-party developers. Just a few hundred dollars extra revenue can make all the difference to these developers.So, it’s important that we can find a low friction mechanism to support the distribution and sale of their applications. For example, I’m pushing hard for a ensuring a zero, or a close as possible to zero, cost to the software vendor: so no cut of revenue for the Foundation.

I believe we can do this, as the Foundation has the buy-in from a broad range of operators and device manufacturers who understand it is the central mechanism for supporting Symbian OS. So a consumer platform for application sales should come from the Foundation. I’m optimistic that we will be able to make developers very happy.

Further information can be found here:
http://www.symbianone.com/content/view/5776/


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