Thread: Elops oh s**t moment for Meego
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lohner is offline lohner
2011-06-14 , 07:45
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Originally Posted by kanishou View Post
The latter. Elop has said this quite clearly, they don't want to split developer resources and complicate matters.

It's fairly sensible, though at least being able to run native C++ backend code would certainly simplify some porting efforts.
It's fairly stupid IMO, they acquired the whole Trolltech team with their Qt experience. Should they have coded Silverlight then? Result is that all good people already left Nokia.
It wouldn't have been too painfull to support both development options, it would just require advanced management skills, which were not available at Nokia.

Plus for Microsoft Qt would have been a nightmare. They only accept their own stuff on their platforms. They always did to that date.
I think this is the stronger reason for Elop to deny Qt.
 

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