Most comments came from former Symbian users or
developers, who are clearly
very saddened to see it
terminated. To a person none of them considers the
Windows
phone anywhere near a worthy replacement for the Symbian
devices they
have known and loved. The following comment
from "PDG9" added some
insight...
Of course they only sold 500k symbian units
compared to 5.6mil WP units. Because they had 6 new WP
models they were
selling and gave no symbian os option on
the Lumina line.
This was
planned and had nothing to do with sales this
quarter. The symbian source was
pulled last year and Nokia
shutdown the webpage....only the developer toolkits
were
available.
But what you people don't know and what the story
doesn't
tell you is the agreement made in Sept 2011 where Nokia
turned over
all development of symbian to Accenture! That's
right.
Now you know why
the symbian development cycles were so
long and the costs were so
high.
So the bottom line is that Microsoft totally
destroyed a
popular and viable OS via their proxy Elop in an attempt to
force
people to buy their crappy Windows Phones that nobody
wants. Reminds me of the
tactics the mafia used to make
people buy their overpriced and inferior olive
oil and
mozzarella cheese in New York and New Jersey back in the
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