Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS
jagermo@feddit.org 1 week agoThe banana was the shit. Sooo cool. So expensive.
Have you watched the Blackberry movie? Its a great insight into how Apple just crushed all of that market with the iPhone.
I wish Nokia had opened their system for third Party developers. They already had the capabilities for an app store on the devices, my E62 had a “store”. But it was just so empty and horrible
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, I remember the closed nature of their system was the main thing which killed any planned OS updates for the 5800 - they were planning on adding more video support, but nothing through which to deliver it, so they just kinda’ dropped the whole thing. I was left with Symbian 60, I believe:-?
And by the time they did start opening it up, with the Es, it was already too late, because the Marketing Wars began.
I haven’t seen the Blackberry movie, thanks for recommending it! I remember those being a big thing, too, mum always wanted one (and a PT Cruiser, so take it with a grain of salt) and I seem to remember pretty much everyone giving a Blackberry-like a shot. Nokia certainly had a full physical QWERTY model, one of my exes had one. But I remember it being, like… no different than the standard keypad Nokia at the time, except with a wider screen and a keyboard.