I attended a Nokia Developer's conference last week and drew the following three conclusions from it.

Firstly, Nokia realized that it really screwed up when it seemingly dropped Symbian last year. Regardless of whether this was actually its intention or not, it's what the industry read into their move and so it was not terribly surprising that open source developers did not rush to get involved in the Symbian Foundation as a result - who wants to become an expert in a technology you believe has no future, after all?

Of course, Nokia has now corrected this misunderstanding, and to underline this, spent most of the first hour of the conference discussing how Symbian was still core to Nokia's future - "the lady doth protest too much", came to mind.

Secondly, of...

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Nick Jones of Gartner discusses how, in his opinion, Symbian is essentially doomed due to bad strategy and an even worse UI.

New subscriber adoption rates are down, but the existing subscribers' hunger for costly-to-deliver data services is up. Margins go down, yet the pressure from regulators on policing these margins goes up. Who, then, would be a network operator?

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