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2011-07-06 , 09:55
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Originally Posted by erendorn View Post
But I still find it very nonsensical that Qt won't be ported to WP7.
It would bring transition between Symbian and WP (good for nokia and Microsoft), homogeneity as first planned in Nokia portfolio, would instill confidence in investors and developpers, and incidently would support MeeGo with the potential ports (good for us). Such a win-win situation, and still won't happen .
Yes, I don't get it either.

Current Nokia strategy in a nutshell:

1. Reach for "The next billion" with dumbphones (S40 that will get Qt, maybe it will even get Swipe UI that is Qt based)
2. Smart Phones (WP7, no Qt here)
3. Future disruptions that feed material to Smart Phones (Qt is here)

For me it seems obvious that number 2. is missing something essential if Nokia wants that the people atracted by number 1 would later move to number 2. And number 3 can't feed anything (software wise, hardware is of course different matter) to number 2 because the technologies are incompatible.

I just don't get the rationale behind that. And that is why I am currently not a Nokia shareholder and also will not be before this starts to make any sense.