New Partner Network for Symbian
Rating: It gets cheaper to be a Symbian Dev
Today, Symbian launches it’s new partner program, Symbian Partner Network (SPN). It’s aim, to enable members to innovate more easily, collaborate more closely with the Symbian ecosystem and accelerate developments with Symbian OS™.
From the Press Release:
The Symbian Partner Network program focuses on harnessing innovation by further strengthening the ecosystem, helping its members and customers to build compelling devices and solutions more quickly and at a lower cost - annual membership fee of USD 1,500.
The program is designed to deliver maximum rewards to both Symbian customers and members of the Symbian Partner Network by enabling companies to efficiently develop and market products and services on the Symbian platform. Symbian customers enjoy access to the highest quality ecosystem solutions, while members make use of a range of technical, marketing and business development tools and resources, including the Symbian OS Binary Access Kit.
Members of the Symbian Partner Network also benefit from access to SDN++, Symbian’s private developer network portal, which contains an exclusive SPN Zone and offers self-service technical support via forums, wikis and a dedicated request management system as well as collaboration ‘zones’.
Mike Whittingham, Vice President Ecosystem Development, Symbian, commented: “We are always evolving to enable our partners and customers to be at the forefront of innovation, ensuring a greater choice of compelling ecosystem solutions for creating best in class phones based on Symbian OS. The new Symbian Partner Network program offers more value to our ever growing and vibrant ecosystem and supports the many services, application and content providers worldwide whose after-market products enhance the value of the Symbian platform.”
We say: This is not entirely unexpected. The old member ship fee cost USD 5000, so this is a welcome reduction. But as I pointed out in my previous post - there is still a cost to market for Symbian Developers, even for this open source OS. Mind you, with 7 million lines of code I’m sure this new group will have plenty of new partners.
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