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

[BRM]

I haveto go with Thiago on this one. There's way more information to this than 
what is publicly available - which is evident just by the various articles, etc. 
out there on the subject.

Yes, Nokia is in the process of contracting with Microsoft to use WP7.
>From other sources I came across yesterday, it seems they'll get $1 Billion 
dollars[1] (US I believe, assuming the article is right) to do so.
>From everything it doesn't seem like they're restricted to just WP7.

That said, WP7 is a magnificent failure - a flop. Microsoft had already spent 
$500 million USD on its marketing
without being able to make any headway. So now it seems they're trying to drop 
another billion to get someone to use it.
Well, expect all other manufacturers to start dropping it unless they get a 
billion or more from Microsoft too - with a similar
deal in place so they can continue with Android, etc.

All-in-all - I still see Nokia doing MeeGo/Maemo phones as the replacement for 
Symbian.
Sure, they're going to have some WP7 phones. But they're still going to have 
Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo phones too.
And if WP7 proves to still be a flop, they'll drop it eventually too.

The market has, after all, pretty clearly spoken and said that it doesn't want 
another Microsoft Windows-based phone.
So it's money in Nokia's pocket - money that'll likely benefit Nokia without 
doing much to actually help Microsoft.

$0.02,

Ben



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----- Original Message ----
> From: Atlant Schmidt <aschmidt at dekaresearch.com>
> To: Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>; "qt-interest at qt.nokia.com" 
><qt-interest at qt.nokia.com>
> Sent: Tue, March 8, 2011 7:15:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] I see the Trolls are being sold to Digia
> 
> 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.
> 
>                              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 Thiago Macieira
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 07:03
> To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
> Subject:  Re: [Qt-interest] I see the Trolls are being sold to Digia
> 
> On Tuesday, 8  de March de 2011 06:50:20 Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> >   The economics  make all this inevitable, but the politics mean
> >   that Nokia won't  ever give us the truth in one cold, hard blast.
> 
> And I'll repeat: your  conclusions are based on the facts currently available
> to the  public.
> 
> But you can see that there's a clear divergence between your  predictions and
> what is happening and what is being said. The reason for that  is that you
> don't have all the information available.
> 
> There's a reason  why we're saying that Qt R&D will continue inside Nokia.
> There's a reason  why the investment levels can be maintained.
> 
> --
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