The guys at EETimes sit down with the developer of Symbian OS for a few words. Interesting stuff here.

"Nicholas (Colly) Myers, the developer of the Symbian operating system, was a pioneering programmer for U.K. handheld-computer company Psion plc in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he became chief executive officer of Symbian Software Ltd., the Psion subsidiary that provided a series of operating systems for the mobile-phone industry."