Symbian: Setting the Mobility Standard Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

Symbian, a joint venture owned by companies that have collectively sold a dominant share of the world's cell phones, face competition from Microsoft to develop an operating system for "smart phones" that are integrated mobile communication and computing functions. In 2003, Symbian problems included: 1) to convince the owners to take Symbian software, not proprietary solutions, and 2) determining the yield to Microsoft enterprise market and focus only on a much larger consumer segments, and 3) strengthen relations with mobile operators that Microsoft was targeted as partners in the alliance after it was unable to sell the software to owners of Symbian's. "Hide
by Fernando F. Suarez, Thomas R. Eisenmann Source: Harvard Business School 22 pages. Publication Date: October 21, 2003. Prod. #: 804076-PDF-ENG

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