Nokia’s recent decision to blow off Symbian to Accenture has come as a surprise to some industry followers – yours truly included. For Accenture, it obviously is a kick-ass deal: getting excellent, “war-trained” kernel coders to burn on new consulting projects comes right after finding half a ton of gold on the street. So, for the rest of this post, we’ll look at the future of Nokia as a company…
If we look at Microsoft’s new best friend, we quickly see parallels to another company which once was known as Palm . When they deployed the Treo 700w, the idea was that Palm does the hardware and Microsoft does the hardware. As Palm continued to develop what became webOS, they eventually ditched Windows and…well…are independent once again.
