[Qt-interest] I see the Trolls are being sold to Digia

[Atlant Schmidt]

Andre:

> Perhaps Nokia is planning to jump into a new business
> like the tablet market?

  Tablets? Unlikely.

  If that were the case and we were discussing an x86
  tablet, Otellini would have had a much-more-positive
  reaction than he did to the February 11 announcement.
  You'll remember he described himself as "cursing like
  Carol Bartz".

  If that were the case and we were discussing an ARM
  tablet, I'd say "that market is sewn up" to an even
  greater degree than is the smartphone market.

  Set top boxes? Perhaps there's room for disruptive
  technology in that market.

  Vehicle telematics? Perhaps. At least all the investment
  in the mobility APIs would pay off there. But then we're
  not talking about the hundreds-of-millions of units that
  Nokia is used to shifting. Perhaps the profit margins
  are higher, though...

                            Atlant


-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Andre Somers
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 07:32
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] I see the Trolls are being sold to Digia

Op Di, 8 maart, 2011 1:15 pm, schreef Atlant Schmidt:
> Thiago:
>
>   My conclusions are based on sound economic principles.
>
>   It doesn't matter what visions Sebastian has communicated
>   to you or believes. It doesn't even matter what Elop has
>   communicated or believes. The simple fact is that you're
>   in the WinPhone business now, the entire corporation has
>   been bet on that, and because of that, Qt has no future
>   value to Nokia.
>
>   So eventually, unless you see Microsoft adopting Qt or
>   you see MeeGo becoming a smashing success and supplanting
>   WinPhone, Qt has to go.
>
>   Reaching any other conclusion requires believing in
>   the impossible.

I believe that one of the aspects you may be missing, is that Nokia isn't
just in the smartphone business (which will be migrated to MS WinPhone 7).
What happens with all of the other devices Nokia produces, there has been
little communication other that Qt is "being evaluated" for those. Perhaps
that evaluation is further along than what has been communicated to the
outside world? Perhaps Nokia is planning to jump into a new business like
the tablet market?

André


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