The most popular smartphone operating system, Symbian, announced a move towards open source in 2008, and has now completed the task. This means that anyone will be able to modify the Symbian source code, develop it, and use it for any purpose. What will be the impact of this bold move? The Symbian Foundation believes it will attract new developers to work on the system and help speed up the pace of improvement. It will increase both the speed of evolution, and the rate of innovation of the platform.
Symbian may be the world’s most popular smart phone operating system, but it has been losing the publicity battle, with Google’s Android operating system and Apple’s iPhone dominating recent headlines. So was this a marketing move to capture mindshare? Read BBC article titled Symbian phone operating system goes open source to find out.
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