In that future, why would companies bother making a native Qt version of their apps when the Android versions mostly work on MeeGo? And if they don't work, well, that's Nokia's problem, isn't it?

There's certainly widespread suspicion that Elop, as an ex-Microsoftie, will bring in Windows Phone 7. Once you've sipped that Microsoft Kool Aid, it's forever in your blood, the thinking seems to go.

Perhaps being a Microsoft exec does forever change a person, but if so, does it enslave the individual to Microsoft's products or to its culture? Microsoft isn't known for throwing their own struggling products aside to jump on the opportunity to ride competitors' coattails. To do that would leave them vulnerable to the whims of others. Instead, they use their size to let them ride out failure while they rebuild their product into something that lets them control the market top to bottom.

Just a thought.