Re: [NTLK] Nokia buys Troltech

On Jan 28, 2008 6:40 PM, Woody Smith <woodysmith@comcast.net> wrote:
> <http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1185531>

Thanks Woody (and others!)

My take on this (first thoughts). Well, this is Nokia's answer to
Google's Android and Apple's OS X on iPhone. It also spells the
death-knell to Symbian.

Perversely, it also puts Nokia in an awkward position. Their internet
tablets run on GTK+ (Gnome) which is like the mortal enemy of KDE, and
Nokia just added the Mozilla browser to their tablets--which is in
contrast to the KHTML/Webkit used in KDE/QT... Very fascinating! Hard
to say how this will all play out--shame it won't help our beloved
Newton. :-( (Wonder if we will still be able to run Einstein on the
next gen tablet?)

Oh, one more thing... Wonder how Nokia will respond if competitors
start putting the open-source QT or KDE stuff on their phones? ;-)

-- 
 -Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
<jonglass@usa.net>
"I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals." --Jack Nicklaus
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