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This expanded table of contents is also available at the end of the e-book.
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Part I: Symbian anticipated
- Approaching the three grand questions
- The Symbian perspective
- Telling the Symbian story
- Sources: Psion
- Sources: email
- Designing smartphones for everyone
- Symbian vision
- The structure of this book
2. Forecasting Symbian success
- Predicting the future
- Assessment – the good news
- Assessment: complications
- It started with games
- “The world’s first practical pocket computer”
- The Sibo architecture
- An epic overreach
- System libraries and market disappointment
- Starting again – and again
- Starting again, again
- Supporting developers
- A change of agenda
- Strengths…
- … and some weaknesses
- Creating the runway for the Series 4
- Designing Protea
- Protea timescales
5. Die like IBM, or die like Apple?
- Mounting competition
- Envisioning the trillion dollar mother-of-all-markets
- The most feared competitor
- Competition from Nokia
- J-Day
- Beyond technology considerations
- Weighing up the options
- Green light
- An alternative history: Not dying like IBM
- Alternative history: an analysis
6. Encountering the phone industry
- First expectations of a market for smart phones
- Snowball
- The trouble with apps
- The birth of Technical Consulting
- The ARM connection
- First encounters with Nokia
- The ARM connection (continued)
- From chilly to warm
- Meeting the big chiefs
- Formal strategy review
- The slow, slow decline of Snowball
- An alternative history: Philips becomes smartphone market leader
- Living with secrets
- The world is coming to an end
- The Map phone
- Growth pains – and growth costs
- Sumo and SatNav
- Multi-colour Bayou
- Ten goals for 1998
- The Unmentionable Thing
- Thinking big
- Nova
- Psion regains its confidence
- Summit at Nokia Manor
- “To Symbian”
- Alternative history: Psion builds a host of successful Symbian-based products
- The first Symbian roadmap
- Motorola returns
- Focus, not fritter
- Options for growth
- Ronneby
- Cambridge
- Alternative history: more focus on execution
- Reaching towards the stars
9. The first successful smartphones
- Extending EPOC
- Roxette: conception
- R380: delivery
- Roxette: Analysis
- ER5u
- The four unexpected delays with any smartphone project
- Roxette analysis: conclusion
- Linda: conception
- 9210: Delivery
- Programme Management
- May 17th
- Shipping Linda
- The legacy of the R380 and 9210
10. DFRDs in turmoil
- The Symbian Manifesto
- DFRDs introduced
- DFRDs defined
- Losing focus
- Trying to pick favourites
- Calypso: conception
- Touch-driven DFRDs
- Progress with Quartz
- Quartz setbacks
- The divergent path of Japan
- Stork
- Sakura
- Pearls
- Pivot ahead
Part II: Symbian ascending
- Over-commitment
- LPRcom
- An unpleasant place to work
- Seeking predictable deliveries
- Seeking funding for upscaling
- The Symbian Wireless Cluster
- Towards a Symbian IPO
- Improved financial discipline
- Lack of competitiveness
- The Symbian paradox
- The Nightingale retreat
- The pivot
- No bag of bits
- Alternative history: Significant additional investment
- The product design paradox
- Palm as a Symbian partner?
- Thin Quartz conceived
- Pearl grinds to a standstill
- Thin Quartz succeeds
- Divesting Ronneby
- The last Psion communicator
- Hildon evolves
- Hildon frustrations
- Series 80 and Series 90
- The origin of Series 60
- Symbian’s reaction to Series 60
- Alternative history: Pearl triumphs
13. Typhoon and other storm waves
- Financial storm waves
- Starling
- A leadership team under stress
- Valentine’s Day drama
- New priorities
- A new organisation
- A new roadmap
- Typhoon
- Fragmentation pains
- Calimero: conception
- Typhoon delivers
- Rhythm in Japan
- The IPO delayed
- The roughest storm of all
14. Predictability and agility
- Drawbacks of predictability
- The agile mindset
- Symbian blame culture
- Extending the matrix
- Recommendations on improved feedback mechanisms
- Inertia
- Bureaucracy
- Bureaucracy in context
- Mercury
- Leadership team evolution
- Accelerating Time to Market
- Battles that were lost
- Alternative history: Stressed but not over-stressed
- From Wizards to Bluefin
- Learning from Samsung
- Goals for Series 60
- Motorola rethinks
- Psion rethinks
- Strategy vs. tactics
- Psion rethinks (again)
- Omega
- Phoenix
- Valhalla
- Ambitions at Ruka
- The constraints of realpolitik
- Kingfisher
- Alternative histories
16. Apps, apps, apps
- Examples of killer apps
- A small early victory for openness
- Symbian Enterprise Advisory Council
- Operator Review Board
- Platform Security
- Examples of mobile malware
- Symbian Signed
- PlatSec complications
- Alternative solutions: Apple
- A Symbian application store?
- Alternative solutions: Google
- No nine day wonder
- Web browser as killer app
- The first Symbian web browser
- Browser fragmentation
- Nokia’s browser strategy
- WebKit woes
- Developer woes
- Reactions to Nokia WebKit
- The hazardous side-effect of focusing on lowering cost
- Simplicity of design
- Alternative history: Beyond the N95
- Nokia looks at Linux
- Human factors
- Sprite
- Throwing axes
- Fixing the architecture – Core OS
- S60 experiences disruption
- Human factors (again)
- Trolltech
- Disrupting the UI
- Sequoia and JAFFA
- Dalvik arrives
- Disrupting the operating system
- Responding to the momentum of Linux
- Street fighting
- A different kind of competition
- Google as a partner
- Yet Another Linux Platform
- The new Symbian journey
- The World Class initiative
- Construx
- Sphinx
- Bad news for Sphinx
- Bad news for UIQ
- Sendo
- Motorola’s dark project
- Meatball
- Linux in the shadows
- A difficult marriage
- Samsung platformisation
- A hope for unification
- Alternative history: Motorola supports S60 earlier
Part III: Symbian transcended
- Struggles in North America
- Mayflower
- Pilgrim and Franklin
- CDMA after Franklin
- Alternative history: a product that operators could not refuse
- Series 90 and Series 60
- Alternative history: the UIQ option for Nokia
- Open Innovation
- Time for Rubicon
- The shark egg case
- Elsinore
22. The last supper
- The Eclipse example
- Eclipse – some warnings
- Project Freedom
- The last supper
- Symbian 2.0
- Enhancing the dream?
- Open plans
- Anticipating Qt
- Limits to open disclosure
- Relationship breakdown
- First signs of trouble
- The four beacons
- Departures from the board
- Rocket science chasms
- Holes in the platform
- Prioritising devices
- No magic wand
- Blaming Symbian
- Market opinion
- The heart of innovation
- The marketing conundrum
- Little help from Nokia
- A three-way division
- No dialectics at the Bingham
- Chinese drama
- More time for… the future of technology
- The foundation dissolves
- Alternative history: a unified foundation
- Ocean
- The vicious cycle of mediocrity
- Dealing with technical debt
- “What is wrong with Symbian?”
- “What is wrong with Nokia?”
- Fractured culture
- Strategic debt
- Sisu
- Risk aversion
- Alternative history: Symbian project speed-up
26. February 11th
- The Burning Platform
- MeeGo
- Lankku
- Competing ideas for change
- Ecosystems
- Steve Ballmer comes to London
- The Osborne effect
- Alternative history: platform co-existence
- Conspiracy theory
- Burning bridges
- Windows Phone issues
- Alternative history: a different CEO
- Devices and ecosystems
- The long path to profitability
- Hits and misses, introduced
- Patient investors
- Deliveries against an incremental roadmap
- Regular internal renewal
- High calibre software personnel
- Well executed acquisitions
- Recognition of the profound importance of smartphones
- Rapport with customer foresight groups
- Openness to customisation
- Ecosystem management
- Independent commercial basis
- Enabling competition
- Psion holds its confidence
- Extra funding avoids the Nightingale pivot
- Symbian supports S60 earlier
- A more gradual company start-up
- A better balance between predictability and speed
- A more tolerant legal framework
- A world-class web browser
- A world-class touch interface
- UIQ achieves scale
- An OS with a proper bottom
- An OS with more standard APIs
- A less intrusive approach to security
- A good solution for CDMA
- A Symbian application store
- Symbian brand name established
- S60 and Symbian merge earlier
- Motorola backs S60 earlier
- Better devices rather than better services
- A lean marriage of Qt and the Symbian kernel
- Symbian Foundation achieves community momentum
- A better financial basis for the Foundation
- Nokia hires a new CEO earlier
- Samsung flourishes with Symbian
- An alternative view on alternative histories
29. The core smartphone skillset
- Three dimensions
- Platform
- Market
- Execution: Integration
- Execution: Enterprise-scale Agile
- Execution: Lean processes
- Simplicity
- The trends that propelled smartphone industry growth
- Appendix: The nine Symbian passions
- Beyond the Symbian passions
30. Visions beyond smartphones
- Technology crossover
- Obstacles to technology solutions
- Wearable technology
- Twenty opportunity areas
- An example of technology acceleration
- Eroom’s Law
- Learning from failures
- Creative destruction
- The cost of complexity
- Changing regulations
- Computers transforming research
- Network effects
- Forthcoming crises
- Changing mindset
- Transhumanism
- A manifesto for Humanity+
- What’s next for smartphones?