{"id":174,"date":"2008-12-08T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/08\/att-to-go-all-symbian\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:51:00","slug":"att-to-go-all-symbian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/att-to-go-all-symbian\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T to go all Symbian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/ST3B31TDb1I\/AAAAAAAADao\/aU_Xn2W4RLc\/s1600-h\/att_logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:hand;width:151px;height:200px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/ST3B31TDb1I\/AAAAAAAADao\/aU_Xn2W4RLc\/s200\/att_logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>An <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/news\/pcworld\/20081208\/tc_pcworld\/atampthopesforsinglesmartphoneos\">article<\/a>\u00a0tells us that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wireless.att.com\/\">AT&amp;T Wireless<\/a>\u00a0intends to run all their phones on one platform as soon as 2014, namely on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.symbian.com\/\">Symbian<\/a>. Is this odd? I mean: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iphone.com\/\">iPhone<\/a> isn&#8217;t Symbian, is it?\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is of course not odd. The carrier wants to avoid platform <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/mobile-device-fragmentation.html\">fragmentation<\/a>\u00a0(see also <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/mobile-games-platform-standards.html\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/fragmented.html\">here<\/a>) which has made it hard to develop mobile applications (and one might well now think that they indeed had a very powerful showcase paraded past them over the last 5 months: see here), and their Director of Next Generation Services, Data Product Realization (can&#8217;t they have shorter job titles?), Roger Smith called Symbian &#8220;a very credible and likely candidate&#8221; to be &#8220;the One&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>AT&amp;T intends to<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0provide an own-branded smartphones and they reckon &#8211; rightly! &#8211; that it would be a &#8220;support nightmare&#8221; would they run this on various platforms.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;cursor:hand;width:200px;height:55px;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/ST3CPG0XjcI\/AAAAAAAADaw\/wuH2Xv5SLR4\/s200\/Symbian_logo.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Mr Smith also came up with some damning verdicts about J2ME: it failed to deliver a simplification for application developers and, moreover, doesn&#8217;t allow developers to get deeply enough into a phone&#8217;s OS to deliver the kind of experiences consumers want (what are these, I ask? Not having to put up with clunky and unintuitive restrictions? Ah, now I get it).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Symbian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openhandsetalliance.com\/\">Android<\/a>\u00a0(see <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/google-to-be-force-in-mobile-too.html\">here<\/a>) or another one: the path is, I reckon, the right one. And it is a milestone for Symbian (and one probably only possible because of the decision to go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/06\/24\/nokia-buys-symbian\/\">open source<\/a> with it) as it would wrap up one of the largest carriers in the world under its wings.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article\u00a0tells us that\u00a0AT&amp;T Wireless\u00a0intends to run all their phones on one platform as soon as 2014, namely on\u00a0Symbian. Is this odd? I mean: the iPhone isn&#8217;t Symbian, is it?\u00a0 It is of course not odd. The carrier wants to avoid platform fragmentation\u00a0(see also here\u00a0and here) which has made it hard to develop mobile applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[50,60,310,318,343,394,398,595,623],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-android","tag-att","tag-iphone","tag-j2me","tag-limo-foundation","tag-mobile-applications","tag-mobile-content","tag-smartphones","tag-symbian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-2O","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}