Sony Ericsson Buying Symbian UIQ
Thomas Menguy | November 10, 2006Read recently in many place and in techype: Pedantry Rules.
For me this buyout was mandatory for SE:
- UIQ is founded/funded by the Symbian Consortium
- The only real licensee using it is SE
- UIQ is not on par with Nokia S60, the other Symbian UI/front-end, developped and maintened by Nokia
- Nokia has 49% (or 46% don’t remember exactly) of the Symbian Consortium.
=> So SE need to have UIQ feature/quality complete … to do that the symbian consortium would need to add some power/money to UIQ…but Nokia won’t be willing to…bad circle for SE that obviously want to continue investing in Symbian, so need a real front-end. CQFD.
Do you agree?
Update: nice analysis at MobileOpportunity. Even if I’m not so sure that keeping diversity in software is not a bad thing at the end of the day…especially for an embedded device.
