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2009-08-04 , 11:39
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Originally Posted by nilchak View Post
While this sounds very good and optimistic, I don't see what a new hardware and a new (already existing) software stack is going to do to upend the market ? Really QT has been there before (used in other phones/PDA's too (like Trolltech Greenphone conceptphone) and Zaurus (in Qtopia form) - and none of these bring anything that turns the market on its head .
Neither of those had the width of offerings and marketing muscle of Nokia behind them. Individual, small-market devices are not so interesting to most developers, which is exactly the problem Maemo has at the moment, though a bit alleviated by Maemo's appeal to free software developers.

If the biggest cell phone vendor in the world suddenly ships Qt with all their phones the situation is quite different