Symbian looks to seduce iPhone devs with free Nokia 5800s, world destroying robo-duckie

by Paul Miller posted Jun 8th 2009 at 10:02PM

Sure, we feign a lack of bias, but deep down in our hearts we only have one love: Symbian Foundation's robo-duckie mascot. Unfortunately for Symbian, it's going to take all the charm it can muster to win over the iPhone App Store's crop of cash-flush developers. Symbian was apparently at WWDC today, doing its best to woo, with all-day festivities involving coffee, food, a "hackathon," prizes, and free Nokia 5800 handsets for attendees. We're expecting Ovi Store to fill in with some solid €1.00 beer drinking simulators and Zippo lighter apps any second now.

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

Tags: app store, AppStore, hackathon, iphone, iphone developers, IphoneDevelopers, ovi store, OviStore, symbian, symbian foundation, SymbianFoundation, wwdc

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ankit @ Jun 8th 2009 10:34PM

I must admit. I admire the way the post ended.
"We're expecting Ovi Store to fill in with some solid €1.00 beer drinking simulators and Zippo lighter apps any second now"
I hope that OVI store does not get filled up with crappy apps like the app store on the iphone. Thats just not worth it.

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plh2034 @ Jun 9th 2009 5:57AM

I think it's genius.

Why don't all OS makers simply call up the iPhone App makers and tell them to port all their work onto their respective OSs.

You can offer a better profit share % and more freedom than Apple is willing to give.