Is symbian slowly dying?

[pearlsbeforeswine]

It's not slowly dying, it's already dead. Symbian was developed by Nokia, and recently Nokia decided to stop using it in all their future products and use Windows Phone 7 instead. So once the current Nokia phones that use Symbian are no longer on the market (and phones don't have a long shelf life), that will be the end of Symbian - no more new products using it, and developers are not going to be interested in a platform that has no future.

[WankS]

Ever since android came out it seems like all the developers have rushed over to it. And now nokia is partnering with MS. Will symbian even exist in new phones in a few years?

[pearlsbeforeswine]

It's not slowly dying, it's already dead. Symbian was developed by Nokia, and recently Nokia decided to stop using it in all their future products and use Windows Phone 7 instead. So once the current Nokia phones that use Symbian are no longer on the market (and phones don't have a long shelf life), that will be the end of Symbian - no more new products using it, and developers are not going to be interested in a platform that has no future.

[pearlsbeforeswine]

It's not slowly dying, it's already dead. Symbian was developed by Nokia, and recently Nokia decided to stop using it in all their future products and use Windows Phone 7 instead. So once the current Nokia phones that use Symbian are no longer on the market (and phones don't have a long shelf life), that will be the end of Symbian - no more new products using it, and developers are not going to be interested in a platform that has no future.

[pearlsbeforeswine]

It's not slowly dying, it's already dead. Symbian was developed by Nokia, and recently Nokia decided to stop using it in all their future products and use Windows Phone 7 instead. So once the current Nokia phones that use Symbian are no longer on the market (and phones don't have a long shelf life), that will be the end of Symbian - no more new products using it, and developers are not going to be interested in a platform that has no future.

[pearlsbeforeswine]

It's not slowly dying, it's already dead. Symbian was developed by Nokia, and recently Nokia decided to stop using it in all their future products and use Windows Phone 7 instead. So once the current Nokia phones that use Symbian are no longer on the market (and phones don't have a long shelf life), that will be the end of Symbian - no more new products using it, and developers are not going to be interested in a platform that has no future.