My guess is that E comes from EPOC (what Symbian OS was called before it became Symbian OS) and that "com" is for "component", and also partly chosen since it sounds a bit like the Microsoft COM system.
I agree partly on the obvious frustration on asking about the names. But on the other hand, names are often also important for understanding. E.g. CONE comes from CONtrol Environment, and understanding CONE as a concept is easier when you know what it actually means. If you are not native English speaker and perhaps also inexperienced with technology and Symbian OS, it may be difficult to "get in" if strange terms float around.
I remember my early times with Symbian, wondering what the hell is this thing called Aleppo. It's related to creating context sensitive help, if I remember correctly. Aleppo comes from a city in Near East, and as far as I gathered, somebody just gave this name of a city to this tool because he felt so. At least I've never found a better explanation for this. Good names aid understanding and remembering, bad names do not.
If that blog entry is not a complete fake (it certainly does not look like one, but on the Internet, you never really know...) "Symbian" seems to be a play on "symbiosis".
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why not?
My guess is that E comes from EPOC (what Symbian OS was called before it became Symbian OS) and that "com" is for "component", and also partly chosen since it sounds a bit like the Microsoft COM system.
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Well Thota seeing your other queries(including this one), you seem more interested in nomenclatures than functional aspects of the terms.
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What does it matter why SYmbian is called Symbian or ecom is called ecom. Haven't you got more important things to worry about.
Its called ECom as the com part comes from Microsoft and e from epoc.
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I agree partly on the obvious frustration on asking about the names. But on the other hand, names are often also important for understanding. E.g. CONE comes from CONtrol Environment, and understanding CONE as a concept is easier when you know what it actually means. If you are not native English speaker and perhaps also inexperienced with technology and Symbian OS, it may be difficult to "get in" if strange terms float around.
I remember my early times with Symbian, wondering what the hell is this thing called Aleppo. It's related to creating context sensitive help, if I remember correctly. Aleppo comes from a city in Near East, and as far as I gathered, somebody just gave this name of a city to this tool because he felt so. At least I've never found a better explanation for this. Good names aid understanding and remembering, bad names do not.
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A blog entry from somebody who does names for a living and who writes that it was him who coined the name "Symbian" 8 years ago, probably as contract work for the soon-to-be company:
http://nameawards.com/2007/11/08/androids-and-symbians-in-your-cell-phone/
If that blog entry is not a complete fake (it certainly does not look like one, but on the Internet, you never really know...) "Symbian" seems to be a play on "symbiosis".
René Brunner