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Symbian fights back

February 24, 2007 |

Blazing hot insights about mobile phone industry from Nigel Clifford, the CEO of Symbian (sure he is puffing up his comp, but you know how to read news anyway). Nigel was interviewed by Finnish finance newspaper Taloussanomat.

Importance of software will grow in the mobile phone sector, Nigel claims. He is right of course. It is like saying that in the future people want to have more mobile services.

Platforms are going to be more important because that enables mobile operators to cut costs because there will be less features to be taken care of from the service side.

Nigel believes that openness will give the needed advantage for Symbian over Windows Mobile. I wouldn’t be so sure though, those enterprise users sure love their familiar Windows experience. Actually this makes me wonder, what if Symbian would be used to run PCs? In many countries, mobile phones are actually the gateway drug to information society.

Market share battle is raging harder than ever, because just in few years time the mobile market growth has to come from products and services instead of subscriber tallies.


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