Arstechnica: "Nokia announced plans today to transform the Symbian mobile phone operating system into an open source platform. Nokia, which already owns roughly half of all shares of Symbian, is in the process of obtaining the other half from various holders for €264 million. The company has partnered with several other major handset makers to launch the new nonprofit Symbian Foundation, which will facilitate the liberation of the platform."
Clayton M Christensen - "Companies make attractive money when they solve the hardest problems. The hardest technical problems mandate solutions that are tightly coupled integrated systems. When modularity and commodization cause attractive profits to disappear at one stage in the value chain, conservation of integration means the opportunity to earn attractive profits with proprietary products will emerge at an adjacent stage. - Seeing What's Next"
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"When modularity and commodization cause attractive profits to disappear"
Are we really at that point yet? Scott D. Anthony (http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/A3J4QI0...) thinks this is more pre-emptive caution wrt Android and iPhone. Handset sales are not now driven by the apps they offer, nor have they ever been.
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