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2011-07-06 , 10:57
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Originally Posted by OVK View Post
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.
Isn't the 1st item a repagination of that idea of bringing smartphones for the lower end?

Before, the strategy was to make S60 go down the spectrum and replace S40, while Maemo/MeeGo whould take the mid-high end.

Now, if I understood the "next billion" strategy correctly, they are canning S60 and making S40 more "smartphone"-like, with Qt, webapps, maps and multitasking..
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