Of course. iPhones are a fun platform well suited for a single programmer to spend evenings writing apps for. Nokias are a "serious" platform designed for "real companies" to devote teams of "software engineers" to develop software for.
A year ago, I looked into writing a simple application and getting it published on Nokia etc platforms. It was slow and expensive to get anything certified. And you seemed to have to redo it all for version upgrades and even bug fixes.
Apple's app store is the best thing that ever happened to Symbian (Nokia, etc) developers AND users, since the App store is soon copied by everyone.
On consideration, to be fair, I should add that I quite liked the Symbian Java APIs (without being a fan of Java; boring). The APIs had lots of interesting functionality, but it was just not realistic to get applications signed so you could do a serious install on mobiles. The painful App store method looks like a dream, in comparison.
