You act like a carrier or manufacturer could seriously consider releasing an android device without joining OHA and licensing market, gmail, youtube, etc etc etc..
I'd be surprised if the license fees were -that- much lower, especially when you include porting costs. And the PR hit it will invariably take when people "upgrade" their nokia handsets and get android instead of the expected symbian.. On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Fred Grott <[email protected]> wrote: > Simple reason actually.. > > Symbian OpenSource OS will not be out until 2012 on devices. Now Nokia > gives a subsidy to Mobile Operators to deploy their devices. Those with lowr > produciton costs on devices obviously have an advantage. Those OSes with > lower lciensing fees have a greater advantage. LiMO foundation and Qualcomm > and Symbian have the highest license fees. > > Android does not. Thus, Nokia had ot have amove to handle the delay of > SymboiAN OS OpenSource and that was to gather more Symbian members and open > a Symbian App store. > > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Muthu Ramadoss > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Nokia is well aware of the threat posed by Android since day 1. And it >> looks like they are game for it. I don't understand why Nokia cannot support >> Android just to attract more developers on top of their existing developer >> base. >> >> take care, >> Muthu Ramadoss. >> >> http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz +91-9840348914 >> http://androidrocks.in - Android Consulting. >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/symbian_expands/ >>> >>> Al. >>> http://andappstore.com/ >>> >>> -- >>> ====== >>> Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the >>> company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, >>> 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. >>> >>> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not >>> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's >>> subsidiaries. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
