I was chatting away to Paul at AQA about last night’s HEAD-TO-HEAD and he mentioned that Colly Myers (AQA CEO) and Bill Batchelor (AQA Development Director) were amongst the team that started all the Symbian goodness years ago.
Quoting from an Internet World interview with Colly:
Myers gave up coding in 1996, but the 32-bit version of EPOC he developed formed the basis of the Symbian platform.
Well I never. I never knew that. I’m going to get a list of questions together for Colly as he’s kindly agreed to an interview shortly.
If you’d like to ask Colly a question, post it below and I’ll sort it out!
Given tha ta lot of people are carrying a mobile and a ‘laptop’ do you think the two box approach would have been a better way to go than the one box approach Symbian adopted?
What do you think about the progression of Symbian from where you started to now, and is there anything that you thought it would do by now that it doesn’t, or anything that it does that you could never have imagined?
Which do you prefer, UIQ or S60?
How do you think Symbian fares against Linux in the future, and what advantages/disadvantages does it have?
Can you please ask him to tell us his thoughts on Android once the SDK launches on Monday and can you get him to tell us what he thinks about Symbian now versus how it was when he left?
How can you claim to be a mobile afficionado and not know this already? I’m dismayed.
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