Nokia to acquire Trolltech [LWN.net]

Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Posted Jan 28, 2008 19:07 UTC (Mon) by hawk (subscriber, #3195)
In reply to: Nokia to acquire Trolltech by jwb
Parent article: Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Well, I guess it may mean that it'd make sense to switch to Qt, if Nokia will continue making
N800-style devices at all.

On the other hand, it seems that the general idea is that Qt would be part of the replacement
for Symbian in their regular phones.

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Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Posted Jan 29, 2008 14:31 UTC (Tue) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]

http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/2008-January...

It seems Nokia's plan is to have Linux/GTK on N800-type devices, and Symbian/Qt on phones.
Nokia appears to not intend to standardize on either operating system or environment.

I guess this makes sense, in a way, they are hedging their bets. If Intel's MID platform takes
off with GTK, Nokia would want to be able to quickly utilize it, and vice versa if Qt on
Symbian is a hit. Nokia is a big company, it can afford to be careful.