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2010-10-05 , 20:21
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#50
Originally Posted by ysss View Post
To developers: If Android is an official target in Nokia's Qt SDK (or whatever it's called) then developers can target Symbian, MeeGo and Android at the same time.
Or maybe it's completely redundant and a potential conflict, since people will simply use Android apps they can't take to Symbian or MeeGo devices. If people see that the high end is Android and MeeGo, they'll probably just ignore MeeGo the same as buyers would.

To customers: Nokia can guarantee that their customers' favorite apps are published on 3 major platforms (symbian, meego and android). So the customers will not need to worry so much about OS selection, as long as they stick with Ovi/Nokia.
Unless they bought Android apps, at which point they're stuck.

All this will increase long term value to Nokia's platforms, serves as bargaining chip against Android.
Simply adopting Android would serve to bolster it. People wouldn't use Qt, they'd just go "oh we can just develop using Android and get Nokia's high end too." And suddenly porting Qt to Android is redundant.