I've made a simple stopwatch app for Symbian. I entered it into Nokias store when it opened I think 2008. Its sales have actually gone up instead of down even though there has been more competition than in the past. Of course it is the best one in mobile ;), but still I don't think that Symbian is quite dead yet. Besides Nokia is still making most of its smartphone money from Symbian.

You win some you lose some. Nobody can predict what kind of phones people buy two or tree years from now.

There is a lot of whitespace activity in Europe. Here is one summary.

I don't know if it is that straight forward. I wouldn't recommend open sourcing your first round of code if it is the core of your business, but then again you should have copyright to your own code and if you are clever enough it gives you street cred when you try to sell the stuff. Competition is usually busy trying to figure out their own problems and if they copy from you, you can use it in your marketing and perhaps in future lawsuits. It's pretty rare that you've actually invented something really new and if you have I guess patenting would be to way to protect that. If you want to drum up publicity I doubt going open source is going to do that in your prospective customers.

Of course not. Thought of killing people with swarming drones turns me off no matter how justified the cause.

but, somehow I wouldn't feel good when my code worked in this case

helped me, yet again, realize how little I understand quantum physics.

The antenna is piece of crap, because when I hold my phone in my hand it loses signal. It is not a subjective feeling.

I haven't decided it is the best phone for me. I just happen to have one when my other phone broke. I'll get something else when I feel the time is right. There never was a decision: hm, what is the best phone for me? Oh it is iPhone!

Now don't get me started about my car....

I don't get why I should love or hate a piece of electronics. I have an iPhone 4, which I currently use daily. It has a crappy antenna, over simplified UI, is shaped like a piece of glass and every n00b owns one. Still I can get by with it and since I code stuff for iOS, I can show people what I've done.

What do you care about it?

I guess I could fall in love with an Android, but it would have to be Cherry 2000. Unfortunately those are limited edition and hard to find.

Still is... down right piece of crap. What is your point?