| Jo21 said: symbian it's 47% for the last quarter, 52% for the year (2008) but the whole market it's down... nokia last year sold alone almost 80 million smartphones. it sold 72 million last year. and thats not true anymore nokia launched a app store, and the support for symbian was always big do it user base, but never had a central site to get the apps rather many third parties sites. u can program in open c, java, python for symbian they are not AJAX app like the iphone also they support ajax apps and flash in their browser. which is based on the same webkit safari . also symbian it's very complete basic functions wise, nokia make great job that you don't require many apps. i use windows live messenger , emtube and google maps the rest its basic for symbian. things like stereo bluetooth, copy paste, flash video, video recording, that the iphone lacks. |
Nobody is denying the market share of the Symbian phones, but that market share has not translated into 3rd party software sales very well. In fact, a recent report suggested that on average all smart phone users download 5 apps, which would mean 400 million downloads for the 80 million Nokia smartphones. In 8 months, Apple doubled that, with an installed base that's less than a quarter. Now, what becomes of Nokia Download Store is yet to be seen, but it is the right thing to do. We've seen that when you make things easy for the user, they will buy software.
I don't know where you get the impression that iPhone apps are AJAX apps, but none of the apps in AppStore are. They are all native apps compiled for and run in the iPhone. The smart thing about the iPhone SDK is that it uses gcc for compiling, so you can program in any language the gcc can compile, although the Apple-provided frameworks and API's are either done in Objective-C or C. You can even mix C, Objective-C and C++ in the same file if you so wish. The iPhone web apps are AJAX apps, but so are most other sensible web apps anyway.
And while it's true that the iPhone lacks certain basic functions, the iPhone OS 3.0 update will fix many things. It will include stereo bluetooth and copy/paste for certain, video recording might be there but since it wasn't mentioned in the Apple event, I think it's unlikely. Flash is not there, and for some that is a deal breaker. Personally I wouldn't want to use Flash on my iPhone, the damn thing is slow even on my laptop so it would be absolute torture on the phone for me.
