It’s this part of the year yet again: a stupid, boring New Year’s eve party straight ahead, and loads and loads of thoughts rotting in the brain of yours truly. As usual, this is the time for our “New Year’s eve” post series – what has happened in the industry this year?
Looking at the market in general, we see little except for stagnation: except for Palm, nobody really did anything of significance this year. This has helped the Symbian ecosystem, which is currently restructuring itself.
Symbian’s key partners are not particularly healthy, either. Samsung is on its way off (Palm OS,anyone?), Sony Ericsson is swapping platforms like a headless chicken, and Nokia, well, Nokia…
On the one hand, their recent releases are not bad – but the company is also pretty headless on other fronts. Start off by looking at the plethora of operating systems they have to maintain, and move on to look at their sub-par performance as an ESD.
Nobody is really able to live off Symbian software and do so comfortably: the Ovi Store is little more than a farce, with spotlights being handed out exclusively to free craplet-type stuff.
Nokia itself definitely has the cash and the resources – it’s a question of willingness and management.
For the Symbian economy, 2010 is an important year: if they manage to get back on track as a whole, their future looks bright. If they, on the other hand, continue to emulate the oft-mentioned and unfortunate animal – you get the idea…
P.S. If you are interested in other platforms, hit the links below – our sister sites contain similar editorials:
2009@TamsPalm – from a Palm head’s point of view
2009@TamsPPC – Microsoft, what were you doing?
2009@TamsIJungle – in an Apple’s peel
2009@TamsBlackBerry – on the RIM of destruction due to boredom?
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