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Despite Nokia’s vehement denials, analysts believe Nokia could eventually be forced to run Google’s popular Android operating system on its phones, as dark clouds continue to loom over Symbian’s future.
Talking to British tech site Mobile News, Malik Kamal-Saadi a principal analyst for Informa Telecoms & Media said “If [Symbian] continues to under-perform in bringing innovation, pressure will grow for Nokia and could push the company to consider the adoption of an alternative platform, notably Android, in the future.”
Kamal-Saadi noted that uptake of Google’s Android operating system would continue to skyrocket, with a potential 540 million people using the operating system by 2015, a compound annual growth of 78% each year from 2009 to 2015. This, says Informa, should be enough to ensure Android topples Symbian from its current top spot in the global OS market, if Symbian continues to sink.
Symbian currently holds a 40% worldwide marketshare, but that number is dropping fast.
Nokia, of course, rejects Informa’s morbid prognosis whole-heartedly, no doubt hoping that Symbian^3 and all its new bells and whistles will save the day for the Finnish phonemaker’s software strategy, but even analysts we’ve talked to here at Unplugged aren’t hopeful.
“Symbian is dead in the water and sinking fast,” InStat’s Jim McGregor told us recently, despite the amount of money Nokia has invested into revamping the operating system. “Nokia is in deep trouble and I’m not sure what the firm can do about it.”
Well, Nokia could always take Informa’s advice and go Google – over Symbian’s dead body, of course.
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Don’t you know that almost all analyst are BS?
this is utter nonsense…what the hell Android brings to phones…Android is s*** java…Nokias share dropped only because their inability to shift towards Touch screen devices on time…but now with Symbian^3 it will climb like hell because Android is much much over-rated and its shit…