Is Nokia pulling the plug on Symbian? (About time!) And will it use Windows Phone 7?

[Zlatomir]

My guess is that the announcement will be about MeeGo, hopefully the launch of a MeeGo phone

[wysota]

My guess is that the announcement will be about MeeGo, hopefully the launch of a MeeGo phone

That's very unlikely considering the guy seems dissapointed in MeeGo. Maybe they'll announce they are firing half of the staff? :P

[hashb]

Open Letter from CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft

• Microsoft development tools will be used to create applications to run on Nokia Windows Phones, allowing developers to easily leverage the ecosystem’s global reach.


is that mean QT will be abandoned gradually by NOKIA?

[agarny]

is that mean QT will be abandoned gradually by NOKIA?

I can't personally see Qt being dropped. It's too valuable a technology. Also, though Nokia is going with Microsoft, it doesn't quite make sense to me while they would only want to target WP7. What about Android? They probably ought to target both in my view, and they could easily do that with Qt, so...

[Trader]

Nokia and Microsoft Announce Plans for a Broad Strategic Partnership to Build a New Global Mobile Ecosystem

http://www.nokia.com/press/press-rel...newsid=1488007

Perhaps this news represents a problem for the free software community to use the Qt.

[mhoover]

I can't remember disagreeing with the gurus here before, but Microsoft's intent is definitely (and singularly) to kill Qt. Remember Bill Gates said they should do everything to wipe out netscape even though they don't make any money off browsers. Even if Microsoft was projected to lose billions of dollars to kill Qt they would do it. In a heart beat.

Qt presents a strong open-source native compiled alternative to .NET and Java, but the problem is there is little market appetite for cross platform software or high-performance software. The average farmer in Kansas doesn't want software to run on every platform -he just wants something to run on his computer (Windows). Qt never caught on in America for that reason, and -despite America's declining market strength- America is far and away the world's largest consumer of everything.

Prediction: expect Red Hat to buy it and make it profitable, but -like Red Hat- it will be part of a niche market that few programmers will want to put on their resumes.