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Plaupius on 18 March 2009
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Jo21 said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
Jo21 said:
Plaupius said:
Jo21 said:
ugh its counting ipod touch.

but its not the fastest selling device.

nokia n95 sold over 20 million and 6300 in a year.

Why shouldn't I count the iPod Touch? It's practically the same platform, especially from a gaming perspective. And I don't think anybody claimed it to be the fastest selling device, I certainly didn't.

 

that would be like sony counting all the playstation brand as one because they play ps1 games all of them.

iphone = cell phone can only be compared to phones.

and it have sold 17 million until now, not bad, but not as great compared to other smartphones especially nokia's or samsung.

btw: symbian foundation is free, SDK Are free. and hold more then 50% of the smartphone marketshare.

 

Not exactly. There's no killzone 2 for ps1, but whatever game is made now works on both iPhones and the iPod Touch.

And yeah, unified hardware has made this possible. I've heard symbian developers bitch for years at Nokia's hardware diversity.

applications are standarize though something that run in the symbian 3rd will run on symbian 5 and so on, and nokia been using the same ti omap 2 and freescale chips for a while.

they have it easy compared to windows mobile thousand configurations.

 

I don't know how the situation has changed since then, but a few years back one of the founders of Sumea gave a guest lecture for a course I did, and he said that configuration management was a full time job for one person for them, and he specifically said that although things may seem easy on the outside, it's a very difficult and complex job to actually manage all that. Another thing he said was how difficult it is to get their software accepted by carriers, basically you need some credentials or they won't spare you their time. Contrast this with Apple and you've got minimum hassle with configurations, no barrier of entry AND you have a channel to distribute updates pretty much automatically. There's just no comparison to what Nokia offers. And this is coming from a Finnish guy who's been using Nokia phones pretty much since they started making cell phones, my first was a Nokia 2110. I wish Nokia could make things as simple as Apple has done, but they've been primarily a HW company for so long that it's taking a lot of time and effort to get the ball running on the SW side properly.