Nick wrote:
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14336

But at the www.wapinsight.com web site, there is mention that Motorola will
continue to produce Symbian phones. (perhaps they are just projects that were
well underway at the time Moto sold ist shares and no more new projecst will
be based on Symbian ???)

JF Mezei wrote in message news:<403BBFB8.D0FA5DEF@istop.com>...
> Nick wrote:
> >
> > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14336
>
> But at the www.wapinsight.com web site, there is mention that Motorola will
> continue to produce Symbian phones. (perhaps they are just projects that were
> well underway at the time Moto sold ist shares and no more new projecst will
> be based on Symbian ???)


JF, explain to me why selling Symbian would mean that Motorola isn't
going to make any more Symbian phones.

You seem to assume they need to be Symbian shareholders to license the
Symbian OS. There is no such requirement, just as I don't need to own
shares in Symbian or Microsoft in order to license and use products
from Microsoft or Symbian.

You read too much into everything.

Erik Sandblom

Erik Sandblom wrote:
> JF, explain to me why selling Symbian would mean that Motorola isn't
> going to make any more Symbian phones.

It was the combination of selling shares and starting to produce smart phones
that were not Symbian OS based that lead to speculation that Moto was dumping Symbian.

The fact that Moto had to dispel those rumours in the media means that I
wasn't the only one speculating about this.