Lumia smartphone manufacturer , Nokia , has finally officially discontinue support for Symbian and MeeGo operating systems as of January 1, 2014 . Previously , this plan has been expressed since last October . In a post on the Twitter account , the team perpisahaannya Symbian stated :
That was it ; Officially we are closed . Thank you all for the past years!- Symbian Signed Team ( @ SymbianSigned ) January 2 , 2014
While applications will remain available for download customers , but developers will no longer publish or update applications in the Ovi Store . Behind it , the second OS developers are still continuing to receive income from the published applications .
Steps taken by the phenomenal Nokia is certainly burdensome to users based on Symbian and MeeGo devices . They can not update or download new apps from the Nokia Store at all , because that would exist in the online store only Symbian and MeeGo long course .
Nokia reasoned wanted to really focus on using Windows Phone devices , as the Finnish mobile phone company has now become a part of Microsoft , as the main initiator of the OS . In addition to Windows Phone devices , Nokia also more incentive to produce Asha line of phones for emerging markets .
" With the growing business opportunities in the Asha and the Windows Phone platform , we have reviewed the content of our developer program to see how we can maximize our support to you , our developers , " wrote Nokia in October . " As a result of this review , we have decided to focus support and investment in new content towards Asha and Windows Phone us . "
