The Ovi Store is the center of their plans. Once Qt is ready, and Maemo and Symbian are ready for the masses, they'll move onto porting Qt to more platforms, like Android and Blackberry. Once they do that, they can use their carrier relations to leverage Ovi-based carrier-branded app stores on all devices and platforms. They'll control the app world, as well as have a great mechanism for content delivery. Imagine this: Would you rather, as a carrier, have to worry about Android Market, OPhone Market, App Store, and Blackberry Market, or CarrierX-branded Store based on Qt based Ovi Store? Which is easier to manage and addresses more OSes, and has payment pipes already installed, along with Nokia Money implementation? Who else can offer anything similar?

Nokia's strategy is one of the greatest moves I've seen in mobiles. I just think they're moving too slowly on making it happen. I hope they don't sell the entire manufacturing wing, but if they only focus on the high end and get out of the mass market business, I won't be upset. There will be plenty of devices out there. But Nokia is the only one with rights to Carl Zeiss hardware for mobiles.