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Most of the people, who have been ardent followers of Nokia as an OEM and Symbian as one of the leading smart phone OSs in the world, were shocked when Nokia announced their end-to-end partnership with Microsoft. Nokia, especially Symbian still has a huge user base and forget about what the numbers say, Symbian is also one of the popular smart phone OSs around the world. After this announcement, there was a kind of panic among users/developers and partners about what will happen to Symbian, especially Nokia’s own CEO, in his internal memo, had mentioned that Nokia is standing on a burning platform, which was none other than Symbian. With Nokia CEO saying this and the Nokia Microsoft deal announced in a couple of days after that, everybody was like, Symbian is now screwed and Nokia won’t support it. However, the one of General Managers of Nokia Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei has confirmed that, though, Nokia has changed its platform strategy to Windows, Symbian will still get support and won’t be let go so easily. Even Nokia knows that though Symbian is burning and letting it go like this will have a huge impact on the Symbian ecosystem of users, developers, partners and Nokia customers. Apple’s iOS and Android are eating up Symbian’s market share but as a matter of fact Symbian’s numbers are still huge and there is a big ecosystem out there. Symbian is here to stay with its 200 million live users but then with Windows being adopted as the main platform for Nokia-Microsoft smart phones, Symbian has no other option but to sulk in a remote corner. I am no expert to comment on this deal but I am sure that, Symbian has and will be hit, and Microsoft is the one who will benefit a lot from this given the humongous reach Nokia has especially in developing countries. And yeah, anybody knows, What the fuk is happening with that whole Symbian Foundation thing??