Mobile OSes are ported to Netbooks

It started in January when some enterprising hackers announced that they had successfully hacked the Android mobile OS to run on the EEEPC.

It continues today when the people behind the Symbian mobile OS (used by most Nokia phones) announced that they had a first, very crude port the mobile OS to the Atom processor (used in Netbooks).

Now for me the question is why? Android I can understand because with it's Linux underpinnings it certainly has the potential to scale up, and the Google brand and governance can certainly bring advantages in some situations, but what about Symbian? Most Symbian applications are designed for mobiles without a toutchscreen interface and running ARM processors so they are not really usable on Netbooks, it is not proven to scale up very well and is proprietary. Beside with some Netbooks running on ARM processors in the works it would probably be better to let the Netbooks come to symbian than to port Symbian to the current netbook architecture.