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RE: poor decisions
By Belard on 5/31/2011 8:15:48 PM , Rating: 2
Nope... as JasonMick and Pessimism have stated...

Symbian should have been regulated to their bottom end phones, which would have keep many people happy. But instead, Nokia kills off their Symbian development team (remember the walk-off?) and announced that Symbian is a dead end.

Who in their right mind would spend money for a dead platform when they can get an Android, iPhone or a NON Nokia WP7 phone (today) for about the same price?

When it came to standard "dumb"phones, it didn't matter so much... you had the basic features (contacts, ringtones, camera, maybe Mp3 player)... but with GPS, Apps stores, modern UI - that leveled the playing field amoung the dozen or so cell-phone makers... and now we have computer companies getting into the business (Dell, HP, ASUS, Acer) because they CAN simply get the SDK from Google and stick it into the hardware.

The era of dumbphones is fading away. My son is 6years old, he's mastered iPhones and Android... I don't see him accepting his own cellphone that is... plain.

