AT&T Wants All Its Smartphones Running the Same OS, Eventually

AT&T plan to lean a single mobile OS on all of its branded smartphones , citing the “ support incubus ” of maintaining multiple platforms at once . oddly , this announcement was made at a Symbian conference . Updated 19:26 EST .

It ’s not alone clear what AT&T signify by this announcement , but one question was addressed mightily off the bat : the iPhone , which the ship’s company draw as “ a third - party twist ” that in general is n’t supported or intervene with by the company , is resistant . Such a consolidation would labor all but one of Microsoft , RIM , Nokia or even Google out of AT&T ’s stable , which might be see as brash .

Even more outlandish are the implicit prospect for phone manufacturers . Would RIM , assume their phone are n’t deem “ third company products ” , be expected to adopt a new O ? Will Nokia phone be chuck out from AT&T ’s card unless they run Windows Mobile ? Simultaneously stating that the plan would only include AT&T branded smartphones ( of which there are few ) and that it would be a “ spectacular restructuring ” , the company has left the orbit of this initiative a mystery .

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As for which OS would be take , the position of the announcement and mentions of a preference for an “ loose ” platform are all we have to go on . I could guess these argument arouse a few eyebrows around the manufacture , so do n’t be surprised to see some variety of clarification egress in the next few days . [ Yahoo ]

UPDATE : Although it is possible some quote in the original story came from a post - speech consultation with AT&T ’s Roger Smith , commenter Sinecure saw the introduction and deal awy a entirely different message :

I sat through the totality of Roger Smith ’s presentation at the Symbian show yesterday and I did NOT come by with that impression one single bit . Methinks some Yahoo reporter just obtain a small over - excited for an interesting headline . I ’m calling major atomic number 5 and mistaking on this one .

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Frankly it shit me even more suspect of some of the reporting on proficient subjects out there .

Bottom line : I heard this imagine “ announcement ” first hand and I did not hear him say anything approaching what the newsperson is saying .

UPDATE II : And now for that clarification I was talking about . AT&T ’s statement on the matter :

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We have no program to standardize on one weapons platform for our overbold equipment .

We want to give our wireless customers maximal alternative – in modern devices , app , operating system , and more . One direction to maximize client choice is to start to reduce fragmentation in the wireless OS environment . That is why we are a extremity of the Symbian Foundation .

That fragmentation puts a heavy load on wireless carriers , handset makers , and specially apps developers , who have to create for multiple operating systems and sometimes for multiple versions of the same operating arrangement .

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