In the industrial ecosystem of mobile, Nokia views Google as bigger threat to its international dominance than Apple. Perhaps this is because Google’s vision of the wireless apps industry is one of open access and “nothing hidden”, while Apple’s is one of backroom handshakes and lopsided, scroogy contract deals. It’s no wonder Nokia is opening the door on the Symbian Foundation, an organization which will unify and promote the use of Symbian mobile OS technology in the future.



[...] this move can be attributed to this chain of events, as Ted from Signal to Noise points out, I think it is only the tip of the iceberg. There are other reasons for this move which are as [...]