Its not as if the Symbian camp had sufficient years to get their act together. Now, however, two upstarts open their stall for business within a year or so of each other and its the time to panic? I think not. The best that Symbian can do is to shut the door as they leave. The horse has well and truly left the stable - Symbian will have to grow up compete.

Paris - because she doesn't like a bit of competition either

What is a laptot in the context of this article¿

I think that it's something to do with Extreme Pornography.

<sigh>

I guess we'll be missing El Reg for a bit once NuLab's Jackbooted Stormtroopers have kicked the doors in and seized the servers.

I've been working with Symbian programming for nearly 9 years and Android for 3 weeks.

On device debugging is my hobby horse. After 9 years it's very hit and miss on Symbian devices - sometimes it works other times the devices will sulk and not allow me to debug.

On the G1 it worked after a minute or so and carries on working - brilliant.

On phones? Surely you meant Windows Mobile?

"The best that Symbian can do is to shut the door as they leave." Precisely.

As an ex-employee of Symbian's I have had the dubious benefit of watching the complacent arrogance of some of the numpties trying to manage the company as if it was a small business.

The internal culture is one of patronage and reprisal. Mention to your Technical Architect that you are about to call a colleague for the first time and, invariably, you would receive a judgement on whether they were a 'good guy' (i.e. one of his mates) or not (i.e. an internal foe), with a heavily implied assumption that this verdict should guide your conversation. Even code reviews were politicised. These guys actually give each other marks for neatness :-)