According to market analyst J. Gold Associates the Google Android platform, that is coming soon, and the Symbian platform that has recently been fully acquired by Nokia, will start merging within half a year. The analyst thinks that the main reason for this is that Symbian stepped on the path towards becoming an open-source system and Android, the operating system that was planned to be an open-source system from start, has a similar strategy. According to J. Gold Associates the owner of Symbian (which currently has the largest market share), Nokia, will not want to go to war with Google, who offers free services, and this evidently marks open solutions as the future of the mobile market. The market analyst thinks that the merge of the two systems would do good for the market too, and it would avoid unnecessary rivalry. One of the main reasons to this speculation is that for example Motorola and NTT DoCoMo are members of both the recently founded Symbian Foundation and Open Handset Alliance that is related to Google Android. The Android platform is exceptionally important for Google as it allows them to make their services available for even more people, while Symbian smartphones are the backbone of Nokia's range of handsets.
Translated by Szaszati
