[Tfug] MS & Nokia - QT Trouble?

[Zack Williams]

> Here's a story on The Washington Post about Microsoft & Nokia joining
> forces to put Office products on Nokia's Symbian OS. Anybody else
> suspicious of this, considering Nokia's development of QT (from their
> TrollTech ownership)? What does MS really want out of this deal? Nokia
> says that the Symbian OS is safe and MS has no interest, but how about
> the basis of KDE and the QT toolbox

Microsoft is again throwing itself behind the volume leader, not the
profit leader. See also netbooks/nettops which they're using to combat
used computer sales, while still making a very thin profit selling new
licenses.

Nokia makes an incredible number of phones, but they don't make a very
high profit per phone
compared to Apple or RIM:

http://www.ismashphone.com/2009/08/a-visualized-look-at-the-estimated-revenues-of-the-top-cell-phone-manufacturers.html

Basically, they realize that they've lost the developer momentum on
the phone platform to the iPhone/Android/Pre,  and the only way they
can get it back is to rebuild a monopoly on the cheap platform.

- Zack