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07-20-2009, 04:46 AM
The Symbian Foundation, a non-profit organisation, founded by Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, Samsung, LG & AT&T to promote Symbian OS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS) has created Symbian Horizon, an application publishing program to promote more Symbian-based applications.
“The core idea behind Symbian Horizon is making the business and distribution of Symbian apps easier,” according to the Horizon blog (http://symbian.org/media/news/pr2009_7.php). " Developers can submit their app or even an idea for an app that they will build. Symbian will select the best apps and help take them to market. We will sign the app, publish it to the App Stores and manage the transactions, all at no cost to the developers. It is a ‘code once, publish to many’ syndication service.” Scheduled to launch in October, it will offer developers full ownership of apps, allow them to submit an unlimited number of ideas and offer a range of resources.
It is viewed as a shrewd business move on the part of Symbian to avert a major slide in its market share in the face of increasingly popular iphone and Android applications . While Apple and other providers charge developers whose applications find their way into their App stores almost 30 percent , Symbian promises to eliminate the excess fees and takes things one step further hinting at a much better deal for developers including full ownership of applications , more flexibility with respect to submissions and extensive support . For more information, visit Symbian’s blog at symbian.org (http://symbian.org/media/news/pr2009_7.php).
“The core idea behind Symbian Horizon is making the business and distribution of Symbian apps easier,” according to the Horizon blog (http://symbian.org/media/news/pr2009_7.php). " Developers can submit their app or even an idea for an app that they will build. Symbian will select the best apps and help take them to market. We will sign the app, publish it to the App Stores and manage the transactions, all at no cost to the developers. It is a ‘code once, publish to many’ syndication service.” Scheduled to launch in October, it will offer developers full ownership of apps, allow them to submit an unlimited number of ideas and offer a range of resources.
It is viewed as a shrewd business move on the part of Symbian to avert a major slide in its market share in the face of increasingly popular iphone and Android applications . While Apple and other providers charge developers whose applications find their way into their App stores almost 30 percent , Symbian promises to eliminate the excess fees and takes things one step further hinting at a much better deal for developers including full ownership of applications , more flexibility with respect to submissions and extensive support . For more information, visit Symbian’s blog at symbian.org (http://symbian.org/media/news/pr2009_7.php).