Analyst says Android and Symbian to merge, Nokia and Google to get matching tattoos
by Joshua Topolsky 
posted Jul 25th 2008 at 11:00AM
According to the oracle-like superbrains at J. Gold Associates, Google's Android OS and Nokia's Symbian will "
combine to provide a single open source OS," sometime in the very near future... say, three to six months. Sure, Android is just about to launch on devices in late 2008, and Nokia just announced in June that it will be moving Symbian towards open source -- and of course the two companies have no formal relationship that would come close to permitting such a collaboration. Still, J. Gold assures us this is happening, stating, "A combination of the Android and Symbian efforts would be good for the industry, good for Google and good for Symbian." In related news, we understand a handful of similar mergers are in the offing: Linksys and Belkin, Red Hat and Ubuntu, Engadget and Gizmodo, and the inevitable one-two punch of Coke and Pepsi.
Update: Craziest thing, it turns out that Google, Nokia, and Symbian are all dismissing the platform merger talk as utter nonsense. And for once, we believe those trusty souls; who knows, maybe it's the complete lack of technical synergy between them?
Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian, Android
Tags: analyst, google, j. gold associates, J.GoldAssociates, nokia, open source, OpenSource, rumor, speculation, symbian
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
backbeat @ Jul 25th 2008 1:27PM
Why not just have the balls to say "bullshit", Josh?
crazyyellowguy @ Jul 26th 2008 2:08AM
true, "bullshit" would have been a good way to describe the merger talks, but that wouldn't have lead to good writing.
Engadget and Gizmondo merger was a great reference, hilarious.
backbeat @ Jul 26th 2008 2:43AM
Your slippery-sloped gauge of a regurgitating blog's "good writing" is duly noted. What a waste.
Riley Freeman @ Jul 25th 2008 1:46PM
what i dont get is why every other sister site of engadget works fine with cursing and the slightest word at ps3 fanboy has to be approved and delays ur responses. ps3fanboy comment system is terrible and is horribly run u complain they do nothing about it
TheGasMan @ Jul 25th 2008 3:38PM
No idea what you're talking about, but I have to say that commenting most certainly does not work fine on Engadget. There are random lags anywhere from 1 to 15 minutes -- sometimes even longer. Sometimes your comment never shows up at all.
enntoxx @ Jul 25th 2008 1:51PM
Let's hope this means NOKIA will be making the phones... :||
Razor1973 @ Jul 25th 2008 1:53PM
Coke and Pepsi?!!?! Oh, wait, wait... ENGADGET AND GIZMODO?!!!?!!?!!
enntoxx @ Jul 25th 2008 1:54PM
ok, i'll say it, "where's the iphone comparisons"
Justin @ Jul 25th 2008 4:12PM
Assuming this Android is executed well, from at least a flexibility standpoint, it'll be Android FTW.
Brian @ Jul 25th 2008 4:47PM
So, will the new site be called Engizmo or Gadgmodo?
Is it April 1st already? My, how the time flies.