Symbian
product on 5 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes · said 11 times in 7 episodes since 2019
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In 2004, Symbian dominated smartphone hardware while developers used Windows Mobile
“At the time you didn't have iOS and Android.
You had Nokia running the Symbian operating system, and you had Microsoft Windows running Windows Mobile.
And there's this very interesting problem where most of the devices in the world that were smartphones and ha…”
Pei: Mobile user experience is fundamentally unchanged since 1990s Nokia phones
“Because the mobile user experience has not really changed for the last, I don't know how many years, 20 years. Even with Symbian, right? Even with pre-Symbian devices, there were icons for apps. And when you click through the icons, you got like a full screen …”