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Ironic

Today, I’ve given up on Nokia - I had owned several, the last one being N6288, and although they all worked reliably, I’ve just grown tired of its mainstream-ness. So, it’s a funny coincidence that hours after having sold my N6288, I read that Nokia is buying Trolltech, the makers of Qt, which is the underlying GUI library of KDE, my Linux desktop of choice (that was a mouthful).

Is Nokia going to put out a Linux phone, forcing me to re-consider? I wish Trolltech all the best now that they’ve sold out but I am afraid they’ll become a footnote, not the driving force that will put Nokia on the technological edge again. The high-end, the leadership goes to HTC, and Nokia’s 40% market share isn’t changing it one bit.

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January 29, 2008 | Filed Under Asides & Off-topic, Me & You, But Mostly Me 

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