For certain values of "preferred". Python bindings for Nokia-specific subsystems (contacts, location etc) were released months or even years after their statically-typed counterparts. You just couldn't build serious applications on S60 with Python, just the occasional script; on Maemo/Meego you could, if you'd waited several months for the eventual release of their largely-undocumented bindings, but you couldn't release them through the Nokia appstore anyway.
Python was simply not a first-class citizen on Nokia devices, 99% of development was done in C/C++. That's one of umpteen huge boats they missed at the time.
Python was simply not a first-class citizen on Nokia devices, 99% of development was done in C/C++. That's one of umpteen huge boats they missed at the time.