[Qt-interest] Fw: Windows 8 Store

[BRM]

 While I'll agree in many respects, their current path does not lead to 
 absorption by Microsoft - namely b/c Microsoft's future is becoming more and 
 more less certain.
 Even on their current path - which can change very  easily to Android or back 
to 

 Symbia or Meego or whatever - Nokia can be  around for a long time.
 
 Comparatively, Microsoft's future is ever  increasingly becoming shorter due to 

 (i) their inability to make a mobile  platform that people want, (ii) their 
 increasing amounts of debt, (iii)  their now falling sales of Windows as more 
 take on tablets and smart phones  instead of laptops and desktops, and (iv) 
their 

 own internal  structure/politics/demands to only ever be the sole platform for 
 everything  (which is the hubris that will ultimately lead to their  downfall).
 
 $0.02
 
 Ben

P.S. Meant to send this to the list initially.
 
> ----- Original Message  ----
> 
> > From: Atlant Schmidt <aschmidt at dekaresearch.com>
> >  To: "lorn.potter at nokia.com" <lorn.potter at nokia.com>; "sscc at mweb.co.za" 
> ><sscc at mweb.co.za>; "qt-interest at qt.nokia.com" <qt-interest at qt.nokia.com>
> >  Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 7:10:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Windows 8  Store
> > 
> > Lorn:
> > 
> > > 1. Smartphones (Windows  Phone)
> > > 2. The next  billion
> > > 3. Future  Disruptions
> > >
> > > Take your pick on which  one involves  Qt.
> > 
> >   But Lorn, that's *PRECISELY* the problem for   us
> >   out here in the real world. We (and more  importantly,
> >   the  people who pay us) don't want disruptions;  we
> >   want a roadmap that  clearly and smoothly  addresses
> >   our needs for our current project and  as well  as
> >   for the next projects that we foresee in our own
> >     roadmaps.*
> > 
> >   On the other hand, Nokia's leadership  wants  dis-
> >   ruptions because, frankly, the path they were  on
> >   would  have certainly lead to their eventual  collapse
> >   and the path they've  now jumped onto likely  leads
> >   to their eventual assimilation into the  Borg,  err,
> >   absorption into Microsoft.
> > 
> >   So Nokia  wants a  disruption, but most of us out
> >   here don't.
> > 
> >                          Atlant
> > 
> > 
> > * And  frankly, for many of  us, Qt's roadmap has been
> >   very-much misaligned  with ours  since Nokia bought
> >   the Trolls. Nokia has been focusing far   too much
> >   on mobility and far too little on the desktop  and
> >    have been nearly ignoring embedded.
> > 
> > 
> > -----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 lorn.potter at nokia.com
> >  Sent:  Wednesday, May 04, 2011 22:55
> > To: sscc at mweb.co.za; qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
> >  Subject:  Re: [Qt-interest] Windows 8 Store
> > 
> > On 5/05/11  12:43 AM, "ext Alex  Strickland" <sscc at mweb.co.za> wrote:
> > 
> >  >On  04/05/2011 16:13, Jason H wrote:
> > >
> > >> Sure  it would never be as  big as Apple or MS or Google/Amazon's Android
> >  >>but it
> > >>  would help Qt app authors... The  attractive WIN here that isn't  done
> > >>anywhere
> >  >> else is you could get the same app on your  phone as for your  desktop.
> > >>(Bundle
> > >> Phone and desktop   versions, pending application suitability of course)
> > >>
> >  >>  Just a thought.
> > >
> > >I just wish I could  figure why Qt has any value  to Nokia any  more.
> > 
> >  http://conversations.nokia.com/nokia-strategy-2011/
> > 
> > 1.   Smartphones (Windows Phone)
> > 2. The next billion
> > 3. Future   Disruptions
> > 
> > 
> > Take your pick on which one involves   Qt.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -
> > Lorn Potter
> >  Senior Software Engineer, Nokia, Qt  Mobility
> > 
> > 
> > 
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