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Should Symbian be ashamed of its "new" Symbian OS version (aka Belle)?

1 points by eldios ↗ HN
This is not about being the market leader or not. It's only pityful to carbon-copy a succesfull OS like Android only because you're sinking as a rock in Mariana Trench.IMHO Symbian (or Nokia as the main responsible for this) should simply go and hide in a bunker where there's no coverage.What do you think about this? Am I the only one who laughed out as hell and then felt a little offended by the new Nokia/Symbian OS images/videos?BTW I'm an happy Android user.. so I need nothing from Nokia, it's only offensive for every intelligent being in general.

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cpt1138
I once had the displeasure of trying to program for a Symbian device. I couldn't believe how difficult it was to just get text to appear on the screen. Like harkening back to Petzold's HelloWorld. I am paraphrasing but the documentation said something like "we acknowledge how difficult and complex these API's are but once you grasp how powerful they are you will learn to accept it."
eldios
agree. Also I once worked in a mobile software house where we made a symbian version of a "secure phone call" software and the guys who were working on it were literally going nuts thanks to the Symbian SDK&API. Go Android.. as sad as it sounds, Google (and luckily the community) is our only hope