Symbian OS Officially Open Source
As of this morning when you woke up, the source code of the always-popular Symbian 3 mobile operating system is officially open source and free to all. Currently powering 330 million handsets, Symbian ranks as the world’s most-used mobile OS.
Despite its ranking as the most-used mobile OS, the recent success of the iPhone and the open source Google Android has put increased pressure on the Nokia-owned Symbian platform to provide a more intuitive, iPhone-like user experience. The move to open source is a good one but potentially too late to be a difference-maker for Symbian; the next release of the OS, completely open source and theoretically highly developed, will tell the tale of Symbians ability to compete into the future.
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