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Originally Posted by jsa View Post
One thing to remember in this case is that the whole point of Qt is to simplify cross-platform development between Symbian and Maemo. And this also applies to internal Nokia development. As you probably know, Symbian^4 with it's renewed-from-ground-up Qt UI is also slated to be released around the end of next year. And I think building the new UI/app suite for Symbian is even more herculean a task than that of Maemo which is why I assume they will share as much code as possible. The point I'm trying to make is that there might be both the Maemo developers _and_ the Symbian developers working for the same goal.
that sounds possible and wouldn't actually surprise me that much... depends how much Symbain 4 will be similar to Maemo 5/6 and vice-versa, but all in all, trying to develope efficiently cross-platform for these two would be a great addition and perhaps in 5-8 years from now (when the new nanotechnology generation arrives) all Nokia phones will be using only one same shared OS...although, Nokia tends to be variable with devices to apply to the widest range of users possible, so who knows how it will end up...