Symbian Keeps Word - Opens Up to Developers
In the continued effort to battle newly popular operating systems such as Android and Apple OS, the Symbian OS has opened up their platform to developers and have the potential of creating a vast app marketplace.
MobileCrunch posted the following details for interested developers, “The Symbian Foundation has already set up a page full of resources for developers who want to build apps for the platform. There are videos, code examples, books, tutorials and forums to foster a strong development community. So if you’re a developer looking to jump into making mobile apps, or expanding on what you might have done for Android, iPhone OS or webOS, you may feel right at home with Symbian.”
Symbian also posted additional details to get developers excited about the launch:
- As of February 2010, the number of cumulative shipments of Symbian devices equates to one for every person living in the United States (with some to spare).
- As of February 2010, if every Symbian device shipped was laid end to end, the chain of phones would stretch around the circumference of the earth.
- If all the Symbian devices shipped up to February 2010 were laid flat on an average UK Premiership football pitch, it would be filled to a depth of 3.5 metres.
