"Linux has a different positioning with Symbian. Linux will be used for computing products and Symbian for smartphones. One more platform S series we see growth ahead," said Chris Carr, Vice President Sales Southeast Asia Pacific (SEAP) Motorola, in one series Showcase Nokia 2010 event in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday (23/2/2010) evening. One of the computing-based products, the Nokia N900, which is the first handset with Linux Maemo 5, seeks to bring the same experience of using a desktop or notebook computers with mobile devices.
Not long ago, Nokia strengthens seriousness of Linux to strengthen cooperation with Intel. Both agreed to combine the development of Linux-based platform, Intel's Moblin, and the Nokia Maemo be Meego.
Carr asserted, multiplatform strategy is an effort Siemens entered the segment with all the diverse product selection according to user needs. All three platforms now become the basis and the future Nokia will not kill each other. Nokia also ensures Linux and Symbian as an open source platform and will hold sleuruh application developers in the world to participate provide solutions for mobile-phone product.
However, he admitted, with a number of platforms to challenge for Nokia to face the complexity for users and developers. To overcome this problem, Motorola seeks to provide a tool for cross-platform application development can be done more quickly. Carr says, Nokia has been providing solutions in the application layer and development tools that can generate cross-platform applications, among others, called Qt and Web Runtime.
"With the application layer, developers simply create an application with Qt, and it can be lowered to all platforms," explained Carr. Solutions like these that are now spread around the world including Indonesia. Nokia also took the potential developer resources such as recently with the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB).