Nokia Symbian System: A piece of ordinary chicken ribs?

"News Watch" reporter Lihua Nokia's powerful created the Symbian system yesterday's prosperity and today is the decline of the Symbian system created Nokia's predicament October 21, Nokia announced that it will be the world's top job cut 1800 people, mainly related to Symbian (Symbian) Smartphone Development Department,　　Nokia Services and a number of functional departments, job cuts are mainly related to Symbian and product development and departmental functions and other departments. Nokia, finally started to the Symbian system under the knife!　　Do not know, this DAO is severed, still painful chop a tangle? The agency is not optimistic about Nokia's Symbian system forecast 2014 Nokia will be overtaken by Android "Every time I think of Nokia and its smartphone OS Symbian, there is always a picture of a man running desperately in a sticky, knee-thick syrup-sweaty, stumbling, proud to say it feels good.　　"Michael Mace, a former Palm and Apple executive, said in his blog that Nokia and its smartphone operating system Symbian. Michael Mace's comments have been quite polite compared to the projections of the relevant institutions. IDC and Gartner, a consultancy, forecast that Symbian market share will fall to 32% and 30.4%,android will catch up with Nokia in 2014. Piper Jaffray, the US investment bank, even predicted that Android would have a market share of more than 50% by 2014, while Apple iOS would be between 20% and 30%. Symbian, in turn, competes with products, including rim and Microsoft's mobile operating system, for the remaining 20% to 30% of its share.　　These institutions do not give Nokia any sensibilities that remain in the "boss" position, because they feel that if Nokia still clings to Symbian tightly, the "hanging in a tree" Nokia can only make way! In a recent report, Gartner, a market research firm, said that while Nokia remains the world's largest smartphone maker, the market share has fallen from 36.8% a year ago to the current 34.2 per cent of the smartphone platform, such as Google's Android, Apple's iphone and rim BlackBerry.　　%, and Symbian's market share has slid close to 10% to 41.2%. The major allies gave up the Symbian system Nokia plunged into a lone June 2008, as the 10 anniversary of the birth of the Symbian system, Nokia in London with Sony Ericsson, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo announced the acquisition of all Symbian company shares. Nokia has also joined hands with At&t, LG, Samsung, Italian-French semiconductors, Texas Instruments and Vodafone to establish Symbian's Joint Symbian Foundation.　　At that time, the Symbian system was almost eminence. October 16, 2010, Sony Ericsson announced it would sever contact with Symbian's operating system, which meansNokia, the main manufacturer of mobile phones with the operating system, has lost its final Symbian ally.　　Li Hu Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation (Symbian Foundation), also resigned from his 10-year job as a "personal reason". Cui Jian's lyrics may best express Nokia's ability to keep the Symbian system alone-"Not that I don't understand, the world is changing fast!" "is the so-called" 10 years Hedong 10 years Hexi, and in the mobile phone industry, Hedong Hexi transformation, only spent two years, two years later, the field of smart phones has been subversive changes. It is understood that Sony Ericsson, Samsung and Motorola, such as the Symbian Foundation once members, have found another "darling." Sony Ericsson has said it will focus on Android phones and Microsoft Windows Phone 7 's handsets; Samsung is now turning to Android handsets, as well as its own operating system Bada, and Motorola has moved from the Symbian system platform to developing Android System, and successfully realized salted fish.　　Whether Nokia should stop to overhaul the operating system, or, as Michael Mace said, continue to run in sticky, knee-less syrup, and continue to be proud to say that it feels good. Smart phones wind up Symbian decline reasonable "the use of electronic products can be as simple as eating cheese", this is the Symbian operating system predecessor EPOC (Electronic Piece of Cheese) in the design of the concept. But now the Symbian system itself has become a complex pronoun, according to industry insiders, Symbian system code number incredibly similar to Windows XP, severely restricting the development of relevant applications of companies and individuals. At present, Apple and Google have established a complete industrial chain, covering consumers, software developers and media content providers, etc., to help push mobile phone and application sales. The iphone and ipad apps available in Apple's App store have reached 300,000, according to foreign media reports October 18. October 27, Google's Android operating system compatible with the number of applications have also exceeded 100,000.　　Nokia Symbian has failed to attract similar developer enthusiasm. "Nokia used to be the most successful is the machine sea tactics, through the introduction of new mobile phones to occupy the market share, but the old and new mobile phone software compatibility is not good." Nokia's new flagship model N8 as an example, it cannot be backward compatible with the original Symbian S60 application, because of its new Symbian 3 flat console Nokia Old Main platform S60 and the new high-end platform Meego between the transition products, in itself is not Nokia main promotional platform, Third-party software support is also very few. At the same time, Nokia has been a low-end machine, terminal, high-end machine three-legged walk, which allows software developers to design software for Nokia, to develop several adaptation versions."Digital Home magazine editor Ye Wangjun that with the rise of the new smartphone operating system, the decline of Symbian system is understandable." At present, he is most optimistic about Google's Android system, the operating system is entirely an open platform, following the development of the PC market trajectory, IBM's PC architecture is open, so the mainstream of the PC market is IBM compatible machine. A digital player in an interview with reporters also said that the Symbian system in the mobile phone basically to call, text messaging features of the era, did perform well.　　However, in the era of the smart machine, Symbian system for touch-screen, multimedia, new operating interface is poor, in the same PC and the Internet and the interaction and scalability, but also has a congenital disadvantage. "Nokia's strength has created the Symbian system's prosperity yesterday, but today the decline of the Symbian system has created Nokia's predicament." An industry insider interviewed by the information times so judged Nokia and Symbian systems. But Symbian system is not a common piece of chicken, it is difficult to discard. Lose, still do not lose, leave Nokia to consider time is not much.