As the Symbian Foundation held its annual developer event in London, it was clear that the foundation is looking at how it can maintain the market share lead it has with smartphones. The Symbian OS is the market leader, and it powers phones from Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and others. However, competition from other platforms, most notably Android, but also Apple and RIM, presents a growing challenge to the Symbian Foundation and its leader Lee Williams. While Williams has taken swipes at Android and Google, he also knows a key factor to maintaining a leadership role in the smartphone space is to have developers create great apps for your platform. Thus Symbian has ratcheted up its developer outreach.
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