Finnish mobile making company Nokia has finally taken the ultimate decision to
stop supporting Symbian and MeeGo operating systems. The company announced that
it would end the era of these popular mobile platforms by the end of this
current running year only.
Recently the Finland based company has released an official letter in
order to address the Nokia developers. The letter clearly said, "If you have Symbian and MeeGo content in the Nokia Store,
it will continue to be available for download to customers, and you will
continue to receive download and revenue reports as well as payouts for
downloaded content. However, starting January 1, 2014, you will no longer be
able to publish any new content or update existing content for Symbian and
MeeGo."
The company clarified that from now onwards it will mainly focus on
developing the other popular Asha and Windows mobile platforms. It has made a
specific plan of action to provide its supreme support and investment to these
two mobile OS. Eventually it has to be mentioned here that Nokia Asha is one of the most popular mid-level mobile
series phones of India and the Windows Phone platform is the brainchild of the
ultimate tech giant Microsoft itself.
Nokia is mainly moving forward and this is indeed the best thing to do
at recent times. Earlier many developers and tech experts predicted that the
company would keep supporting Symbian and MeeGo mobile OS platforms till 2016.
But thing didn’t go well in past few years and Nokia had even lost its kingdom
in the smartphone market to the Apple’s iPhones and other Android
smartphones.
Last month Nokia had to sell its mobile business units to Microsoft and
that particular move had given the much needed hint to the analysts that the
era of Symbian and MeeGo OS was going towards the doomsday. Finally it is
happening on the 1st January of 2014. Earlier we published here that
Nokia to bid adieu shipping Symbian
smartphones
this summer only.
In 2002, Nokia launched its first ever Symbian-based mobile handset, and
labeled it as the Nokia 7650. Last year Nokia unveiled its last Symbian-based
smartphone Pure View 808, which runs on the Belle version of Symbian OS.
Now you must be wandering what exactly are the effects of Nokia’s stopping
of support for the Symbian phones. Well, it simply means that the users of such
phones will not be able to update their existing apps from January 1, 2014.
They will only be able to download the last updated version of such apps from
Nokia’s Ovi Store.
This move is quite sad for the talented developers of these platforms
too. It will not allow them to publish new apps or update the already existing
apps on the Nokia store. However, there is a ray of hope too, as the
developers will continue to receive royalty from the each and every download of
their existing paid apps.
