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Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Posted Jan 29, 2008 14:31 UTC (Tue) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281)
In reply to: Nokia to acquire Trolltech by hawk
Parent article: Nokia to acquire Trolltech

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.


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