It's a well known fact that Symbian is the worldwide leader in operating system for smart phones with more than 49.3 percent of world smart phones using their OS. But, as companies like Apple, Google, RIM, Microsoft and Palm have taken the Mobile OS market very seriously, Symbian's market share has been steadily declining for the past few years. To remain competitive in the market, the company has announced many initiatives this year. One of such initiative is the recently announced application publishing platform - "Symbian Horizon". The new service aims to simplify the task of distributing applications developed for the Symbian OS by third party developers. Unlike Apple's app store, there is no revenue model for the service, a developer has to submit the program and the company would take care of signing the app, publishing the app to the store, managing the transactions and so on, all at no cost to the developers. “Our goal is to encourage robust application development, increase revenue and application diversity in mobile stores, and improve the consumer experience – all for the greater benefit of the mobile ecosystem”, says Lee Williams, Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation. The service is expected to launch in October while developers can submit their programs right now on the official page. Hit on the read link for the official news on Symbian's blog.
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