Both Nokia and Microsoft is betting their (smartphone) lives that WP7 will succeed, and anything that in one way or the other can jeopardize that is not worth it.
It is only Nokia that is betting the farm on this "partnership".
If it fails Nokia is dead, there is nothing to fall back on (switch to Android!?! restart Meego & Symbian development!?!).
If it fails, MS still have their cash cows, Windows and Office. And plenty more money to destroy more companies.
It is only Nokia that is betting the farm on this "partnership".
If it fails Nokia is dead, there is nothing to fall back on (switch to Android!?! restart Meego & Symbian development!?!).
If it fails, MS still have their cash cows, Windows and Office. And plenty more money to destroy more companies.
Nonsense. Nokia can go Android at any point, and they have S40 that is being developed to much more than just a dumphone OS. S40 has 75 % of Nokias sales. If the deal goes wrong, it certainly is a huge blow, but it is not the death. WP is the right move for mainstream smartphone OS.
For MS this is equally huge. The future is mobile, and this is their chance. It is now or never for them.
The true irony is that just with that press conference Nokia gained 6% stock value, rising to 8.23 and finally breaking the 7 mark it held since the massive drop in the spring, tho it quickly dissipated afterward. They managed to get back to the same value by the end of Jan '11 (no doubt sales reports helped there) and were steadily fluctuating around the middle `eights` up until last Friday and the new announcement of 'strategic partnership' - with a company well known to suck out dry all their past 'strategic partners' - and the massive drop in the past two trading days - almost at minimum value for the past several, tough years (and there is a good possibility it might even go bellow 6 at which point investors should be quite worried).
Judging by the stock market, it's clear what the market thinks of both of those strategies
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Just to visualize it:
This is just business as usual. Investors will sell now before Nokia reach the bottom. The they will buy when the bottom is reached in 3-6 months. A very nice profit.
I read somewhere that the main problem with Qt for WP7 is that Qt is unmanaged code, while WP7 only admits managed code (or something like that), is that too much of a technological obstacle?
I read somewhere that the main problem with Qt for WP7 is that Qt is unmanaged code, while WP7 only admits managed code (or something like that), is that too much of a technological obstacle?
Not really. It is more of a philosophical obstacle. Microsoft belong to the "only if we can control it" church. Qt has always had more of a "if you can dream it you can do it" type of mentality. So, the problem is not with Qt. It is with WP7's draconian restrictions meant to keep Microsoft in control of everything that goes on in that platform. Nevertheless, there are always ways around those restrictions.
