OK I was thinking about this the other day.

Nokia bought all of the shares of Symbian, and turned it to the Symbian foundation, with a roadmap to open source the OS. The features of MOAP and of UIQ will make their way to S60, essentially creating one platform. We've already seen Nokia experiment with touch screen S60 (the so called Nokia Tube) so we're partly there.

There was also scuttlebutt (although disputed) of Nokia and Google cooperating. Hmmm...

For those that don't remember, Nokia owns the maemo linux platform that runs on the Nxxx series internet tablets, and acquired trolltech earlier this year, which may mean a lot of the maemo platform.

Now with all this consolidation, cooperation, and merging, are we seeing an "all roads lead to symbian" situation?



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Just a thought...