Symbian^4 ain't going to come

This is an old news. But I was ignorant about it till today. On 20th October 2010 Rich Green, Nokia CTO, announced that

you can buy a Nokia smartphone confident that any improvements introduced later to the Symbian platform, such as the user interface, can be made available to download on your device as well. No need to wait for Symbian^4 — the improvements we were planning for Symbian^4 will be introduced as and when they become available. In fact, we will no longer be talking about Symbian^3 or Symbian^4 at all – it will be one constantly evolving and constantly improving platform.

One benefit of this simplified approach is that planned and future improvements in Symbian will be developed in Qt and will be compatible with the existing Symbian^3 platform release. This means that Nokia's continued commitment to develop the Symbian platform will benefit not only future users of Symbian-based products, but will result in updates and upgrades for existing Symbian^3 users. The resulting change to a model of continuous evolution replaces the previous release-based model. Nokia will no longer refer to Symbian^3 or Symbian^4. The benefit to consumers will be a constant improvement in the experience of their Symbian-based Nokia products.

My reaction : I was informed about this fact by Nirave from nokiausers. I googled and got this info. I remember I was busy with exams in October 2010 hence missed this piece of news. When i started reading Mr. Green's statement, I was so upset that I titled this post as "Symbian is dead". Also thought of closing this blog (as I dont want a blog on something which is going to die). But them I read this

it will be one constantly evolving and constantly improving platform.

So Nokia isnt going to ditch symbian. Its going to stick to it. This is a very good news as it means that N8 will be the best Symbian device in future too :-)