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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. WANHA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    n/t

  2. Smart Move by ilyanep · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple sees that it's failing in Desktops (as it is before the Intel alliance...not going into that) so it's moving to mobile:

    The Apple deal fits well within this strategy to create a rich, open platform that can compete with Windows and the Visual Studio tools in the enterprise and consumer markets, and keep Microsoft at bay on mobile devices. Browsing is an important issue that needs to be addressed more effectively than it has been to date on mobile devices, particularly as handsets incorporate open IP access via Wi-Fi and as operators start, grudgingly, to open their walled gardens.

    I'd actually be quite interested to see what sort of things Apple can come up with on Mobile. If they are equally priced to Microsoft's 'solutions' and can perform as well or better that might make Apple for this decade.

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    ~Ilyanep
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  3. hi Zonk. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    welcome to last week...oops, i meant slashdot.:p