This analysis elides the fact that all OSes in the Symbian era had to compulsively ask about accessing the Internet because data usage was at such a premium.
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#12Symbian was great! I got a used Nokia 6110 Navigator around 2008 (I was 12/13) and it was mindblowing to me. It had GPS, and I could download apps from the internet that would do stuff with the GPS and send data in real time to my computer.
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#13That's like saying because everyone else has 'pervasive multithreading', BeOS won even when it was a commercial failure. Everyone else did it better. It's not about who invented it first, its about innovating over other inventions. Symbian still failed commercially in the market and couldn't compete or innovate with the other competitors.
"Everyone else did it better" - by some very loose definition of "better" maybe. Author is agreeing that Symbian failed for good reasons at the very end of a very short blog post.
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#14This analysis elides the fact that all OSes in the Symbian era had to compulsively ask about accessing the Internet because data usage was at such a premium.
That's not completely correct. My NEC smartphones didn't. Nor did the early BlackBerrys that I used.
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#15That's like saying because everyone else has 'pervasive multithreading', BeOS won even when it was a commercial failure. Everyone else did it better. It's not about who invented it first, its about innovating over other inventions. Symbian still failed commercially in the market and couldn't compete or innovate with the other competitors.
If the 'winners' have to adopt your ideas, you've won.
At least if your ideas where more important to you than 'winning'
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#16I don't miss symbian. Maemo on the other hand... was a loss. Nokia N900 was absolutely the best smartphone i ever used. Would use it still, but usb port issues forced me to upgrade.
Was Maemo open source, including the shell? I wonder whether anyone will try and revive it now we have mainline kernel Linux phones, like Librem and Pinephone.
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#18That's like saying because everyone else has 'pervasive multithreading', BeOS won even when it was a commercial failure. Everyone else did it better. It's not about who invented it first, its about innovating over other inventions. Symbian still failed commercially in the market and couldn't compete or innovate with the other competitors.
They innovated away privacy and security by relying on the human poor ability of impulse control and hardship with delayed gratification. Basically they made everything shiny and addictive. Is that really innovative? Perhaps 'bad' ui is better when you consider higher order consequences as opposed to concentrating only on first order popularity contest?
I'm not saying Nokia and symbian were better BTW. Just noting how our contemporary value system where, "it makes money"="it's good" is short sighted at times.
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#19I owned every generation of the Nokia 9xxx Communicator series and especially the 9500 with Symbian 7 was a joy to use.
Nothing beat laying by the pool and doing a little office work on the brick.
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#20Last Symbian phone I used was a SonyEricsson P910 (Symbian UIQ3?). I loved the on device programming - writing a script answering SMS based on content was the best.