#MeeGo

Elop: Today Nokia Dives Forward.

well, this has become a funny t-shirt day :P

Did someone drop nokias head on a block of cement ? :)

@ihmis-suski Exactly. "I worked in Symbian development for 10 years and all I got was this X-box t-shirt"...

Qt jää vain Symbbariin ja MeeGoo, muuten .Net. Extending the scope of Qt further will be our first MeeGo-related open source device, which we plan to ship later this year. Though our plans for MeeGo have been adapted in light of our planned partnership with Microsoft, that device will be compatible with applications developed within the Qt framework and so give Qt developers a further device to target. http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/nokia-developer-...

On IRC: <DawnFoster> I can say that Intel isn't slowing down on MeeGo.
We still need time to digest the news and figure out the details.
but Intel is certainly making chips for phones and are talking to other manufacturers

"primary smartphone strategy" doesn't mean "the only one", fortunately

putting things straight: meego/maemo never felt like de-facto primary smartphone strategy, no matter what we hoped for. it was Symbian all the way. Todays news mean "Symbian is replaced by Windows Phone". Meego/maemo stays in it's geeky segment

Nokia may have gotten Windows, but at least I don't have malaria. So some good news for the day

@bergie reps :D

By the way, this is not the first time Microsoft has a strategic partner in mobile http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/11/in-memoriam-micro...

The plot thickens, apparently Mr. Elop owns Microsoft stock, but not Nokia http://www.kauppalehti.fi/5/i/talous/uutiset/etusi...

@natasha_l: ois näemmä keikkaa

For those who've forgotten during the 2000s while Microsoft has been largely paralyzed, here is why they're such a bad company for the whole tech industry

So what would have happened without an evil Microsoft? Weeks of my life would have been spent making cool stuff on the internet, instead of trying to work around Microsoft's deliberately broken browser. Multiply that times thousands of more talented and creative developers, and the internet you use every day would simply have worked a lot better, for the last decade of your life. Java might have been a viable technology for desktop apps; games might be developed with cross-platform technologies instead of DirectX; Office documents might be reliably edited in cheaper, better alternatives to Office. 100 little technologies that Microsoft spotted and bought before I ever heard about them, because they might lead to cross-platform code, would be out there doing their thing. http://www.metafilter.com/99052/New-Achievement-Sc...

In memoriam: Microsoft’s previous strategic mobile partners http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/11/in-memoriam-micro...

Cringely: That’s why Nokia did the deal with Microsoft, which will be assuming the burden of all that software development and paying Nokia for the privilege. It’s a short-term play that makes perfect sense in an industry where CEOs last an average of four years. Stephen Elop’s four years are now fairly certain, his golden parachute packed and ready. http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/burning-the-ships-...

let’s dump everything and start from scratch because we are not sufficiently behind of our competitors. No pasarán. http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/2011/02/19/no-pasaran/

@bergie http://www.joelonsoftware.com/article...

I think the way to figure out which way Nokia is going to go can be seen on how they treat Qt. If they choose to keep it, Meego is going to be the future. If they choose to let it wither and die (or sell it off), Meego will become just a curiosity http://www.ecyrd.com/ButtUgly/wiki/Main_blogentry_...

Qt is community governed project. KDE is free to fork and license it in a way they want to if Nokia stops active development of Qt.

See http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskd...

@jarkko sure, but the question is whether Nokia stops Qt development or not. Also note that the "Free Qt" agreement doesn't activate if Nokia merely stops working on it