[scottdupoy]

Electronic piece of cheese!

Symbian OS was very capable, full of features, but hard for developers to pick up and work with. I remember when the iPhone first came out and Symbian developers couldn't believe how few features it had ("it doesn't even multi-task!") but it did absolutely nail the user interface which is what most people noticed.

As a friend working at Symbian once said to me, "it was like watching a train crash in slow motion"