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Smartphones and beyond

Lessons from the remarkable rise and fall of Symbian

Smartphones and beyond

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  • Chapters
    • Dedication
    • Foreword
    • Part I
      • Learning from smartphones
      • Forecasting Symbian success
      • Before the beginning
      • The Protea runway
      • Die like IBM, or die like Apple
      • Encountering the phone industry
      • Death Star or Nova
      • Roadmaps and overreach
      • The first successful smartphones
      • DFRDs in turmoil
    • Part II
      • The Nightingale pivot
      • Designs by collaboration
      • Typhoon and other storm waves
      • Predictability and agility
      • The near-miss merger
      • Apps, apps, apps
      • The superphone experience
      • Disruptions on all sides
      • Google on the horizon
      • UIQ’s final flurry
    • Part III
      • A new world of openness
      • The last supper
      • Too much openness
      • A divided foundation
      • The merger that failed
      • February 11th
      • Symbian’s greatest hits
      • Alternative histories
      • The core smartphone skillset
      • Visions beyond smartphones
    • Afterword
  • Table of contents
  • Author
  • Reviews

Chapters

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Dedication

Foreword

Part I: Symbian anticipated

  • 1. Learning from smartphones
  • 2. Forecasting Symbian success
  • 3. Before the beginning
  • 4. The Protea runway
  • 5. Die like IBM, or die like Apple?
  • 6. Encountering the phone industry
  • 7. Death Star or Nova?
  • 8. Roadmaps and overreach
  • 9. The first successful smartphones
  • 10. DFRDs in turmoil

Part II: Symbian ascending

  • 11. The Nightingale pivot
  • 12. Designs by collaboration
  • 13. Typhoon and other storm waves
  • 14. Predictability and agility
  • 15. The near-miss merger
  • 16. Apps, apps, apps
  • 17. The superphone experience
  • 18. Disruptions on all sides
  • 19. Google on the horizon
  • 20. UIQ’s final flurry

Part III: Symbian transcended

  • 21. A new world of openness
  • 22. The last supper
  • 23. Too much openness
  • 24. A divided foundation
  • 25. The merger that failed
  • 26. February 11th
  • 27. Symbian’s greatest hits
  • 28. Alternative histories
  • 29. The core smartphone skillset
  • 30. Visions beyond smartphones

Afterword

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