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

[Atlant Schmidt]

Roland:

  The use of such "Kremlinology" is that many of us have to decide
  whether to invest in Qt in the future, both personally and on behalf
  of our employers. And based on Nokia's performance to date and
  the external economic logic, one would be hard-pressed to endorse
  making (further) investments in or creating further dependencies
  upon Qt. Yet Qt remains a very powerful framework with definite
  advantages so it would be a shame to turn away from it without
  very good reasons...

  So we indulge in Kremlinology (Espooology? Elopology?).

                                   Atlant


Reference:

  o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlinology

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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 Roland Mueller
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 08:03
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] I see the Trolls are being sold to Digia

Hello,

 I think it's quite useless to speculate about plans Nokia has or has not. There *no trust* in Nokia's Qt politics since 11/02, the only thing IMHO Nokia-Trolltech could do, is to communicate a believable roadmap for what they want to use Qt (execpt use it still for Symbian) to the public.

-Roland
2011/3/8 Atlant Schmidt <aschmidt at dekaresearch.com<mailto:aschmidt at dekaresearch.com>>

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


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From: qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com<http://dekaresearch.com>@qt.nokia.com<http://qt.nokia.com> [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt<mailto:qt-interest-bounces%2Baschmidt>=dekaresearch.com<http://dekaresearch.com>@qt.nokia.com<http://qt.nokia.com>] On Behalf Of Andre Somers
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 07:32
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com<mailto: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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