Creation of Symbian Foundation means heads will roll: UIQ slashes 200 jobs

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Justin @ Jun 27th 2008 3:30AM

That just plain sucks. The UIQ folks were the descendants of Psion's "Quartz" pen-based UI team (hence UIQ). They were a bit of a quirky bunch with innovative ideas and their lack of success certainly wasn't because they lacked talent.

Nokia's intent on developing their own S60 UI was the first major blow to the entire Symbian idea - ultimately forcing Symbian to sell the UIQ unit to Sony Ericsson, its only remaining major customer. It didn't make sense for Nokia to compete with their supplier, after all...

Thank you to the UIQ team. You guys always came through with neat ideas and a solid implementation, even with relatively limited resources.

I'll never forget how amazed I was the first time I held a P800...

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