Nokia has signed an agreement with Accenture to outsource the development and support activities for Symbian.
Accenture will continue to develop and provide support for Symbian till 2016 as previously promised by Nokia, but what happens after that is anyone’s guess.
It wasn’t clear enough that Nokia no longer wants anything to do with the platform that made them the king of the smartphone segment.
Symbian is a genuine smartphone OS, not just some kind of power hungry Unix that's been downsized to fit a mobile.
Meanwhile, 2,800 of Nokia’s employees are expected to transfer to Accenture at closing, which will happen in the early part of October, 2011.
We hope the way Nokia is shrugging off other responsibilities to concentrate on their Windows Phone 7 devices, they turn out to be worth it.
The main reason of outsourcing might be they want to concentrate on what they know best and let the experts handle what they don't.
Should Nokia become a hardware only company? One can expect its profit margins to rapidly drop. The original whole rationale for Nokia moving into mobile services such as navigation was to move away from just.
If Nokia outsourced the development staff to Accenture, that should permit Accenture to more tightly control the development staff, and come up with higher quality releases of Symbian.
Nokia just doesn't have the software expertise or coordination of Apple, Google or MS and this has been shown again and again with their bungled handling of the Symbian system.
Accenture will continue to develop and provide support for Symbian till 2016 as previously promised by Nokia.
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