Posts by faichai

RIM's co-CEOs quit in top exec shake-up

Innovation Committee

'Chair of the new Innovation Committee' says it all really. RIMs fucked.

Is Skype Microsoft's PowerPoint part deux?

Sound Quality...

...is nasty. Please try a bit harder, contrast between American and English speakers requires volume adjustment!

Cisco rolls out data center pods

as annoying as on-premise

Which doesn't mean anything either. These larger companies really should know better.

Android will sink Symbian

Humbug

So the "Analyst" appears to be implying that the Symbian Foundation has a whole load of resources that it can bring to bear on the problems that he highlights.

The Symbian Foundation specifically has NO developers who are working on the OS itself. They are essentially safeguard the Open Source project, but have a few people to manage builds and the SCM systems.

Nokia basically bankroles and supports actual development of the OS (with some support form Japan), and so it is Nokia's developers that would need to be re-purposed. It isn't clear from the article that the analyst really gets that.

Sadly, he's right that Symbian will fail, Symbian simply doesn't have the mindshare, and lots of things about the platform still suck and that puts developers off.