Alan Brenner, RIM's head of application development, says the company has worked the past two years to make BlackBerrys more developer-friendly.

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For Linux enthusiasts, Google has stayed true to its developer-friendly principles.

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That would give a software developer or product vendor time to order up substitute code with more capitalist-friendly license terms.

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Our new family of smartphones introduced today feature the all-new Symbian OS, rewritten to be faster, easier to use, more efficient and more developer friendly.

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