Comments on: Nokia: No plans to merge Symbian with Android http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/07/25/nokia-no-plans-to-merge-symbian-with-android/ All About Mobile 2.0 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:06:22 -0600 hourly 1 By: Mr. PoopyPants http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/07/25/nokia-no-plans-to-merge-symbian-with-android/comment-page-1/#comment-420298 Mr. PoopyPants Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:06:18 +0000 http://mobilecrunch.com/?p=3414#comment-420298 Symbian is archaic. Try sharing source code between a Symbian project and some other mobile platform. The Open C initiative is a step in the right direction, but in my opinion, Nokia should bite the bullet and adopt Android. They even achieve a certain degree of backwards compatibility by implementing some Symbian API's on top of Android, creating a "Symbian" layer that co-exists with Android's Java UI layer. Apple did just this with the Mac OS 9 API's when they moved to OS X. But of course Nokia won't. Symbian is archaic. Try sharing source code between a Symbian project and some other mobile platform. The Open C initiative is a step in the right direction, but in my opinion, Nokia should bite the bullet and adopt Android. They even achieve a certain degree of backwards compatibility by implementing some Symbian API’s on top of Android, creating a “Symbian” layer that co-exists with Android’s Java UI layer.

Apple did just this with the Mac OS 9 API’s when they moved to OS X.

But of course Nokia won’t.

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