Hi, IMHO they should have released a Qtopia (Qt 4-based) phone 6 months after acquiring Trolltech, then keep developoing Maemo and replace Qtopia with Maemo only when Maemo would be ready. That would have given them a lot of Qt developers and a lot of applications and an operating system more powerful than Symbian.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:06 PM, K. Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello List! > > Most of us have been following and talking about this whole > Nokia / Microsoft thing. A couple of recent discussions on > this list got me thinking about it again: > > [Interest] Is Nokia officially done with Qt? > http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2012-June/002454.html > > [Interest] Qt on Windows Phone 8 > http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2012-June/002703.html > > I would like to ask a related, but somewhat different question: > Clearly Nokia and Elop were and are facing a big business challenge. > What might they have done differently? > > I'm hoping to avoid comments like this or that company is bad / > stupid / evil. It's easy enough to say that some folks did the > wrong thing, but harder to say, okay, here's what they could have > done differently. > > I think that it's arguably the case that: > > Nokia missed the iPhone revolution > therefore faced a significant threat to their business > therefore needed to make a dramatic (desperate?) move > so they joined forces with Microsoft > > Now I like to hate on Microsoft as much as the next guy, > and so on and so forth, but what might Elop have done > differently? It's his job to try to save Nokia (or as > much of Nokia as he can), and not his job to try to save > Qt in particular. > > It's not like Nokia could have partnered with Apple. > (Or maybe they could have. If somebody thinks that > could have been the case, that's exactly the kind of > discussion I'm looking for.) > > It's easy but not very helpful to say things like > everybody's an idiot or so-and-so is a Microsoft > tool or Nokia should have invented the iPhone before > Apple did. I would like to approach this like a Harvard > Business School case study: Let's say you were appointed > CEO of Nokia instead of Elop back then. What -- in the > face of the very real challenges Nokia faced -- would > you have done? And a follow-up question: Let's say you > are appointed to replace Elop now. What -- given whatever > water is already under the bridge, and in the face of the > very real challenges Nokia faces now -- would you do now? > > > Thanks, and best regards. > > > K. Frank > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
