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Inside Symbian: the Platform Nokia Secretly Hates

Posted by Hemos on from the i-love-you-but-i-hate-you dept.

DECS writes "The Symbian OS runs the majority of todays smartphones, and is generally regarded as a solid platform. All is not well behind the scenes however. Here's why Apple ported its own OS X to the ARM architecture for the iPhone, why Motorola left Symbian for Linux, and why Nokia executives secretly regard Symbian with contempt. An inside look from Symbian developers: Readers Write About Symbian, OS X and the iPhone."

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  1. So is this the end... by ettlz · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...of an EPOC?

    1. Re:So is this the end... by juanfe · · Score: 1, Funny

      why oh why are there no moderation points for bad puns?

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  2. Re:Oh, RoughlyDrafted.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nokia have been aggressively pushing for software patents in Europe. Given a choice between Nokia and having pins stuck into my testicles, women would think I was some hellraiser fetishist.

  3. Plug and play by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    This is all nonsense.

    Sybian requires only an electric outlet and a love-starved female or homosexual lover.

  4. Secretly? Nah... by QuasiEvil · · Score: 4, Funny

    Symbian: the Platform Nokia Secretly Hates I'm pretty sure anybody who has ever had to work with that godforsaken OS (myself included) hates it openly...
  5. Two Finnish Symbian devs' comments on IRC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "I wish there was a doctor somewhere who'd give you some time off work simply when you mention the word Symbian"

    "Lots of job opportunities for Symbian devs these days... the previous ones having jumped out a window"

    (thanks to manko@#suomiscene for these two gems)

  6. Re:Not enough CPU? by AJWM · · Score: 4, Funny

    There isn't any magic spell that has been cast to make programmers more stupid or make compilers worse over the last twenty years.

    Really? Then how do you explain Windows?

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