Originally Posted by ericsson

Both Nokia and Microsoft is betting their (smartphone) lives that WP7 will succeed, and anything that in one way or the other can jeopardize that is not worth it.

Originally Posted by kureyon

It is only Nokia that is betting the farm on this "partnership".

If it fails Nokia is dead, there is nothing to fall back on (switch to Android!?! restart Meego & Symbian development!?!).

If it fails, MS still have their cash cows, Windows and Office. And plenty more money to destroy more companies.

Originally Posted by zwer

The true irony is that just with that press conference Nokia gained 6% stock value, rising to 8.23 and finally breaking the 7 mark it held since the massive drop in the spring, tho it quickly dissipated afterward. They managed to get back to the same value by the end of Jan '11 (no doubt sales reports helped there) and were steadily fluctuating around the middle `eights` up until last Friday and the new announcement of 'strategic partnership' - with a company well known to suck out dry all their past 'strategic partners' - and the massive drop in the past two trading days - almost at minimum value for the past several, tough years (and there is a good possibility it might even go bellow 6 at which point investors should be quite worried).

Judging by the stock market, it's clear what the market thinks of both of those strategies

edit:
Just to visualize it:

Originally Posted by mrojas

I read somewhere that the main problem with Qt for WP7 is that Qt is unmanaged code, while WP7 only admits managed code (or something like that), is that too much of a technological obstacle?