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AT&T Eventually Wants All Its Smartphones Running the Same OS [At&t]
Gizmodo —
... As for which OS would be chosen, the location of the announcement and mentions of a preference for an "open" platform are all we have to go on. I could imagine this raising a few eyebrows around the industry, so don't be surprised to see some kind of clarification issued in the next few days. [Yahoo] ...
AT&T Wants All Its Smartphones Running the Same OS, Eventually [At&t]
Gizmodo —
... As for which OS would be chosen, the location of the announcement and mentions of a preference for an "open" platform are all we have to go on. I could imagine these statements raising a few eyebrows around the industry, so don't be surprised to see some kind of clarification issued in the next few days. [Yahoo] ...
AT&T Is Pitching a Single Smartphone Platform
Phone Scoop - Latest News —
... number of systems its support personnel will need to understand, as well as help it focus on application development for a single platform rather than many. The AT representative who made the remarks suggested that Symbian is the best candidate to be its smartphone platform of choice. The consolidation does not mean AT would get rid of the iPhone, which it considers to be a third-party platform that is supported by Apple. AT hopes to complete the platform consolidation by 2014. more info at Yahoo News / PCWorld ...
Should AT&T Consolidate To One Smartphone Platform?
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... for a number of reasons. Could AT survive with just one smartphone platform? The idea makes some sense from a business perspective. Were AT to actually ditch all but one platform, that means it could reduce support and development costs across the board. PCWorld reports , "The mobile operator believes smartphones will make up the largest portion of devices connecting to its network by about 2014, and it wants to avoid the fragmentation of platforms that has made it hard to develop mobile applications." That's understandable, but I think it would cause more problems than it ...
AT&T Wants Single, Unified Smartphone OS
AppScout —
... Given the audience, it should come as no surprise which operating he called "a very credible and likely candidate," according to PC World. ...
Editorial - AT&T Crushed by Choice, Learning from Apple
iPodObserver —
An AT executive said on Thursday that the company plans a "dramatic consolidation" of its mobile platforms over the years, leading up to 2014. The credible and likely candidate, he said, is Symbian. However, the decision doesn't affect the Apple iPhone. This announcement says a lot about too much complexity and choice in the mobile phone market. It seems like every time I watch an AT commercial on TV, they're promoting a new and different mobile phone. One can hardly keep track of them all. What started out as a slavish devotion to choice, or perhaps concessions to wannabe ...
AT&T Crushed by Choice, Learning from Apple
The Mac Observer —
An AT executive said on Thursday that the company plans a "dramatic consolidation" of its mobile platforms over the years, leading up to 2014. The credible and likely candidate, he said, is Symbian. However, the decision doesn't affect the Apple iPhone. This announcement says a lot about too much complexity and choice in the mobile phone market. It seems like every time I watch an AT commercial on TV, they're promoting a new and different mobile phone. One can hardly keep track of them all. What started out as a slavish devotion to choice, or perhaps concessions to wannabe ...
AT&T Crushed by Choice, Learning from Apple
iPodObserver —
An AT&T executive said that the company plans a "dramatic consolidation" of its mobile platforms over the years, leading up to 2014. The credible and likely candidate, he said, is Symbian. However, the decision doesn't affect the Apple iPhone. This announcement says a lot about too much complexity and choice in the mobile phone market. It seems like every time I watch an AT&T commercial on TV, they're promoting a new and different mobile phone. One can hardly keep track of them all. What started out as a slavish devotion to choice, or perhaps concessions to wannabe partners, ...
AT&T's Open-Source Phone Plans
Tech Observer —
... Speaking at the Symbian Partner Event in San Francisco, Roger Smith,
director of next generation services, data product realization at
AT&T, told an audience that Symbian is "a very credible and likely
candidate" for a new line of AT&T-branded smartphones, according to
Yahoo News.
While AT&T has every intention of carrying the same smartphones
like BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile devices it does now, the
company wants to simplify its support structure while simultaneously
offering devices powered by a more standardized and extensible
platform. ...
AT&T wants a single smartphone platform on its network; I wanna fly
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... matter without BlackBerrys and some HTC devices in their portfolio. Not to mention all the Android devices we’ll certainly see unveiled during next year. Is AT&T ready to dump such big portion of the smartphone market? Or all they want is simply to outsource support to the manufacturers? It’s hard to say at this stage, but it’s a good thing they’re thinking about the future, no matter how weird their ideas are.
Check out the full article on Yahoo News (from PC World).
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