Another sad news… UIQ Announce Plans To Layoff 200 Employees

By asri on June 26th, 2008


AAS reported that UIQ have announced plans to layoff of 200 employees (reports BLT.se). Currently the majority of the 375 staff are employed in the Ronneby offices, with the balance of staff in two foreign offices in London and Budapest. These offices will probably close. Further detailsat AAS.

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2 Responses to “Another sad news… UIQ Announce Plans To Layoff 200 Employees”

  1. Gerhard on Jun 27th, 2008 at 3:48 am

    Hello

    What it is the problem ? We are talking about a new OS for 2010 !
    Even, if nothing would have changed, UIQ3 would have been succeded by a new OS/UI sooner or later ! So, after the change from UIQ2 to UIQ3, who can guarantee that UIQ4 or UIQ5 is backwards compatible with UIQ3? Nobody. We (Symbian users) do need a strong Symbian socaity. Without S60, we would not have seen so many UIQ3 programs. I can imagine, that even with Symbian Foundation, a Smartphone from SE will look different from a Smartphone from Nokia.
    The much bigger issue of this deal is S60 touchscreen. Will Nokia bring this UI to the market ? What will happen with this UI ? If not, can Nokia keep marketshare without S60 touchscreen until 2010 ?

    Gerhard

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