Comment by tananaev
2 years ago
Nokia had a chance, but their developer experience was terrible. They should have invested in it. And also open source. They could have open sourced their platform and compete with Android.
What did they do instead? They made an extremely stupid bet on Microsoft, which by that time was even further behind in mobile world than Nokia itself.
Symbian was open sourced at one point and before that, available for others to make phones with, SonyEricsson had a couple, I think there were one or two others as well. The Nokia linux phones were open sourceish as well, in partnership with Intel.
Open or closed source wasn't the problem, really.
> I think there were one or two others as well
Motorola A925, Motorola A1000, Motorola RIZR Z8, Motorola RIZR Z10 (aka 'banana')
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Motorola+Z8&t=ffcm&iar=images&iax=...
If your platform is trash just opening it up doesn't matter.
And their linux based phones were pretty open but they had no power in the organization and having an open source platform with no phones is pointless.