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Nokia And Apple Collaborate On Open Source Browser

Posted by Zonk on from the phone-browsing dept.

Michael writes "Nokia's ambitious bid to make the mobile phone as important a client device for business and leisure as the notebook PC took another important turn last week with news that it has created a browser in collaboration with Apple, which will be managed under the open source process. This starts to address awkward web browsing, a key weakness of the phone's bid to be the 'new notebook', and it raises interesting questions about how much further Nokia and Apple could go in cooperating on the anti- Microsoft ecosystem, and how far Nokia is committing its future to Linux."

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  1. Re:Smart Move by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Failing in Desktops?? Are you nuts?
    Sure Apple wasn't doing so hot, but most of the new Apple PCs are damn nice, and plenty of people are buying.

  2. Re:Oh for the love of by FireballX301 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ah yes, open source is ALWAYS better than anything any closed source, NO MATTER WHAT. Thank you, mister OSS zealot.

    I personally find the free version's advertisement s unobtrusive, anyhow.