I take offense to comments made about me in this article, but a valid point has been made: Should Nokia have made more announcements at the summit and why wasn’t the event covered in greater detail?
The summit wasn’t meant to be a PR launch platform, but a gathering of people in the mobile industry to get the scoop on where S60 is right now and how other people are using it. This was more of an executive’s event than an outright techno-news-explosion, but isn’t that why we have 3GSM?
It would have been nice to see some phone announcements being made or major revisions to the S60 OS, but that wasn’t the point Richard. If you really want to see the powerpoint slides that we [the press] saw then feel free to look at my Scribd account.
My coverage is going up in bits and pieces and everything should be published by tomorrow night.
Back to your question: What was the point of the S60 Summit?
For people in the S60 ecosystem to connect with other members within the same industry. Nothing fancy, nothing really crazy to blog about, but you would be hard pressed to find anyone who thinks the summit was a waste of time. Yes we all enjoyed ourselves, yes Nokia could have made it more about themselves, but it was made very clear to us from the start that this is more of a gathering than an actual conference. It wasn’t about "what to blog," but more like "who to meet."
Why don’t you stop by in 2008 and see if you can muster a better job than the rest of the blogosphere? I’m sure you can, but you would be missing the entire point of the event.
Connecting with people.