InternetMaking a Case for an Android-Symbian Merger
Analyst suggests Google's Android and Nokia's Symbian will merge open source operating systems.
These days, vendors of all stripes want to tout their "openness" to developers. But one analyst thinks two of the bigger players need to take their open platform ambitions a step further and merge. Jack Gold, who heads J. Gold Associates, posits the inevitability of a merger between Google's Android and Nokia's Symbian mobile operating systems in a report released July 24 titled, "And-rian or Sym-droid?" Gold conceded in an interview with InternetNews.com that he has no inside knowledge of the companies' plans. "Some of this is speculation, but it's absolutely logical," he said. "If you look at the mobile world today, there are too many operating systems. If you're an application vendor it makes no sense, or is extremely difficult to think about supporting Android, Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile, the iPhone and so on." Nokia recently bought the remaining part of Symbian it owned with several other companies and then announced it planned to make the OS open source. Google spearheaded the Open Handset Alliance of companies, which is formulating an open source software stack, including OS, for mobile devices. RELATED ARTICLES Open Source Nokia a Threat to Microsoft, Google? Microsoft Co-sponsoring Open Source 'Census' Google's Big Phone Gambit: An Open Mobile Platform Google Shows Off 'iPhone-Like' Android Features Software Drives the iPhone 3G For more stories on this topic: Google... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]
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