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Summary
Nokia announced that it would buy-out its partners in the Symbian OS venture.
Simultaneously, the owners of the intellectual property surrounding Symbian
announced the Symbian Foundation to offer cellphone manufacturers licenses for
the Symbian OS at no charge.
This is a strategic move to shore up the Symbian third-party application
development ecosystem in the face of new challenges from Google' s Android,
Apple' s iPhone, and increasing consumer interest in BlackBerry devices from
Research in Motion. This report looks at the underlying logic of this effort
and the implications of the Symbian Foundation business plan.
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