> 2) Finding developers for Nokia's strategy won't be a problem. There are lots of .Net developers around. Just FWIW, Windows Phone 8 adds a native development

> 2) Finding developers for Nokia's strategy won't be a problem. There are lots of .Net developers around. Just FWIW, Windows Phone 8 adds a native development option, so .Net is no longer the only game in that town. (It follows that it may be possible to put Qt there, too, but that's not really what I was going for.) > 3) I fail to see what possible benefit Qt brings to Nokia's future strategy. They are unquestionably a Microsoft shop now. It is irrelevant how great Qt is as a technology. That's true, but to add the historical context: Until this round of layoffs, Nokia had several hundred people at their Ulm office work on a new Linux/Qt-based mobile operating system. It is now, with that project shut down, that they have no internal use case for the technology anymore. Many of the workers at Ulm were genuinely surprised at this development.