From the article:<p><i>About a third of the Android code base is open and nothing more,” says Williams. “And what is open is a collection of middleware. Everything else is closed or proprietary.”</i><p>Can anyone with more Android experience comment on this? What is the 2/3 that has been kept proprietary?
The article says that Symbian powers most of Nokia's phones, but that's not correct. AFAIK, Symbian is on about 20% of Nokia's offerings, with the rest running their closed dumbphone operating systems (Series 30/40).
More in-depth analysis on BBC tech site here:<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8496263.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8496263.stm</a>
I hope this is good sign.<p>I'm developing a simple-but-powerful desktop QT app that I hope to port to symbian and Android at a later point.<p>As an application framework, QT (developed by Nokia) rocks and it would be nice to have it target lots of open platforms.