Comments on: Nokia grabs its future with Symbian buy

Planned acquisition will give Nokia greater control over the destiny of its product development.

[disposableidentity]

When Steve Jobs launched the iPhone he said something like "we're 5 years ahead of the competition".

At the time I laughed and thought the iPhone was well conceived and well executed, but certainly not that far ahead.

Now I think he may have been right. Google is finding that developing a full mobile computing platform it harder than it looks. By the looks of their offering Microsoft already knows how hard it is. And now for Nokia (remember they are far and away that largest mobile phone company), the best they can do is turn their operating system over to the masses?

[East-Point]

Nokia camp, Google camp, Apple camp? Who will follow? Aren't we announcing we are more open? Maybe Apple will have to adjust its business model on iPhone soon because of coming competition.

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[disposableidentity]

East-Point, on the contrary! Apple will clean up with the rest of the market this fragmented. Aside from the iPhone (which has amazing developer tools and a built-in distribution model for Apps), Android is the platform developers want to use. But it's at least a year away, and looks like it will only be available on the 3rd & 4th largest US phone networks. Symbian phones have 60% of the world smartphone market now, but it's old and tired and hard to develop for. Opening it up will breath a little new life into it, forcing more phone manufacturers and developers to invest in it. Microsoft is still a player, but not a strong one in this space. And RIM continues to pump out well designed units based on a strong system. Look at how well Apple is doing against a monopoly in the PC market. Imagine how well Apple would do if the PC market wasn't dominated by one huge well-entrenched competitor.

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