It’s easy to see that AT&T would love it if every phone used one OS, and so would some other phone companies. But the power of being able to choose your own poison (so to speak) should outweigh most every other consideration in this case, and it probably will here too.
Speaking at the Symbian Partner Event in San Francisco, AT&T’s Roger Smith, bigwig of new ideas and product brainstorming in a fashion, reportedly stated that he wanted to “standardize on a single operating system for AT&T-branded smartphones as part of a dramatic consolidation of its mobile platforms over the next few years.”
Given the location of the speech, it’s not shocking that Symbian was named “a very credible and likely candidate” to be that very OS, and for those questioning the iPhone, he stated that that Apple’s device is “simply a third-party device tapping into AT&T’s technologies”. If I were Apple, I wouldn’t appreciate this broad characterization.
Is AT&T going to push away RIM and Microsoft to embrace some open-source OS as their guiding light for all their phone lines? It’s probably not going to happen, but the thought is an interesting one. Would a central OS make the cell phone world a better one?
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