Lee Williams has resigned as head of the Symbian Foundation and, as one of my former colleagues put it so eloquently on Twitter, "Good riddance to bad rubbish!". It'll be interesting to see if anyone funds the SF for a third year, it's looking unlikely at the moment so the largest open source experiment of all time looks set to fail.
At the same time, Nokia announce the end of Symbian as a third party developer platform. From now on developers have a choice of Qt or HTML5 if they want apps to run on Nokia phones (which will continue to run Symbian OS and Meego underneath). This is a sensible move, the Symbian programming paradigm was too difficult for newcomers to learn quickly.
I'm many things but stupid isn't one of them.
Lee Williams has resigned as head of the Symbian Foundation and, as one of my former colleagues put it so eloquently on Twitter, "Good riddance to bad rubbish!". It'll be interesting to see if anyone funds the SF for a third year, it's looking unlikely at the moment so the largest open source experiment of all time looks set to fail.
At the same time, Nokia announce the end of Symbian as a third party developer platform. From now on developers have a choice of Qt or HTML5 if they want apps to run on Nokia phones (which will continue to run Symbian OS and Meego underneath). This is a sensible move, the Symbian programming paradigm was too difficult for newcomers to learn quickly.