or something else at least

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/03/v...mes-its-peers/

i do recall seein g here how they are hiring an insane number of qt devs to make apps.

maybe they are trying to give apple store a run for its money.

youd think they would shore up ovi first

I know you're posting this with good intentions, but an engadget reference?

and secondly - your title (Nokia spending big bucks on MeeGo) is empty as you straight away say "or something else". Why? Because people like meego references and are desperate for any news? Quite disingenuous - in fact - i take it back you probably didnt have good intentions.

wow i think i just got reverse troll'd haha

just sharing the news, i know were supposed to hate engadget but they often scoop good stories like these

and im not trolling- its common knowledge that ovi store is a joke

The point is more, no Nokia have not spend 4 billion dollars on R&D developing Meego last year.
The article, being engadget, utterly misses the fact that nokia do more than develop Symbian and Meego - I'd imagine the amount of money they throw at those two is a tiny drop in that ocean of 4 billion, compared to the amount they spend on both handset hardware, and infrastructure development. As mentioned countless times by the less blithering of Engadget's posters, have a guess where the majority of the development of LTE/4G came from, along with counless other "routine" infrastructure developments.

QT devs != Meego. QT is framework in symbian too :-)

But yes QT IS the feature for Nokia that can we atleast be sure of even if they decide to go WP7 on hiend. (Hopefully not, but personally I want proof that Nokia is doing meego handset and RELEASE it before I can really beleive it there is to much rumors atm...)

Exactly, so many people seem to forget that they can't make a GSM call without using Nokia patent. Nokia is the pioneer over at antennas also and has huge portfolio of patents over at wlan side as well.

I hope larger amount has now gone to OS side of things(i'm sure that's the case, but how much more?), but those numbers really don't tell it.

Followed the source:

http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/f...Dbreakdown.jpg

What a terribly colored chart. I think the shades differ by a hair?

hahaha 300 on Meego AND QT! 1050 on Symbian UI/Symbian Kernel :-O My guess is two reasons. Meego is still made by the "geeks" inside nokia (=less engineers) and also the fact that the dinousaurs behind Symbian is overpayed compared to Meego engineers...

Okey I know there is also plenty more Symbian phones and non Meego so far but still...

I don't see Engadget claiming that Nokia spent most of that budget for MeeGo.

You'd be as bad as Engadget if you think so by reading that article.