Its not about gtk vs qt, really. See it from the eyes of someone living in 2010. Bigger things are at play here, gtk was merely a temporary actor to keep things afloat until qt was mature enough. Nokia had it very well foreseen (to switch to qt) and planned already in that sense. And the fact hildon could be written in less code with qt could also be seen as a proof to it, perhaps.

I mean think about the madness of all of this.

Nokia had everything planned out. Multitouch, the platform for it (yes, Qt), and the devices (maemo / S90?). We are talking about
*billions* of euros (or dollars, if you prefer). Thousands of workers, relying on the company they trust in, an immense patent portfolio that was *way* ahead of their time (btw apple just agreed to pay royalties to Nokia kthxbye).

And what happened? They got cold feet. They chickened out in the most importand moment, when the whole development is in high gears, and any small disruption can break it. Steve Jobs striked with the iPhone, and the Finnish guys's sisu's shrank to a white dwarfs size, and the blackhole that resulted swallowed the whole mobile division. That plausible? Could they have gotten cold feet from android? Android was so limited back then, noone thought it would be able to grow where it is today.