Editing Symbian Software (section)

== Decline ==
The decline of Symbian Ltd. has been tied to Nokia's fate. By 2007, it enjoyed a high level of success with its operating system running one of every two mobile phones bearing the Nokia logo so that it claimed 65 percent of the mobile market.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.silicon.co.uk/mobility/smartphones/symbian-mobile-history-227097?inf_by=5b890fa3671db87d0d8b4da2 |title=Tales in Tech History: Symbian |last=Jowitt |first=Tom |date=2018-01-12 |work=Silicon UK |access-date=2018-08-31|language=en-US}}</ref> Its Symbian OS continued to dominate the market until Nokia acquired the company in its entirety in 2008, creating it as an independent non-profit organization called Symbian Foundation. Nokia donated the assets of Symbian Ltd. as well as the Nokia's S60 platform to the new entity with the goal of developing an open-source and royalty-free mobile platform.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Porting to the Symbian Platform: Open Mobile Development in C/C++ |last=Wilcox |first=Mark |publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|John Wiley & Sons]] |year=2009 |isbn=9780470744192 |location=West Sussex, UK |page=x}}</ref>

Nokia, however, began to lose its market share with the emergence of [[Apple Inc|Apple's]] [[iPhone]] and [[Google]]'s [[Android (operating system)|Android]]. To address this, Nokia abandoned the Symbian OS in favor of [[Windows Phone]] OS for its mobile devices, shipping its last Symbian handset in 2013.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/2042071/the-end-of-symbian-nokia-ships-last-handset-with-the-mobile-os.html |title=The end of Symbian: Nokia ships last handset with the mobile OS |last=Null |first=Christopher |work=PCWorld |access-date=2018-08-31|language=en}}</ref> Having lost its biggest supporter and caretaker, Symbian was absorbed by [[Accenture]], which is supposed to maintain it until 2016.<ref name=":0"/> The prior Symbian Foundation has transitioned into a [[License|licensing]] entity with no permanent staff, claiming on its website that it is responsible for only specific licensing and legal frameworks put in place during the open sourcing of the platform.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://licensing.symbian.org/ |title=Symbian Foundation |website=licensing.symbian.org |access-date=2018-08-31}}</ref>