Symbian OS Goes Open Sourcemashable.com 8 pointsTechnophilis16 years ago4 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−jdietrich16yThere is already a thread on this topic - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1099722−rabble16ySo what, it's open source now, the OS still sucks. Nobody builds symbian apps for fun, the only people using the platform are paid to.If they'd done this 4 or 5 years ago, they might have had a chance. But now there are viable alternatives which suck less.−dublinclontarf16yDoes this mean I could install a newer version of the OS on my S40 phone making it hackable? PS. I dissagree ith what the article say's, on the lower end phones Symbian is still the leader.−davidw16yS40 != Symbian
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There is already a thread on this topic - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1099722
So what, it's open source now, the OS still sucks. Nobody builds symbian apps for fun, the only people using the platform are paid to.
If they'd done this 4 or 5 years ago, they might have had a chance. But now there are viable alternatives which suck less.
Does this mean I could install a newer version of the OS on my S40 phone making it hackable? PS. I dissagree ith what the article say's, on the lower end phones Symbian is still the leader.
S40 != Symbian