Well, this shows just how good are these buyouts by big corporations:

  1. create great product
  2. get people on board
  3. success
  4. get bought by BigCo
  5. ???
  6. get crushed when BigCo focuses on something else

Learning moment: developers can't be wedded to a particular technology. Qt is fantastic but it's not the business. We can't invest ourselves in companies that are floundering and Nokia has been floundering for a number of years.

If you find yourself investing your talents in a company that has multiple directional changes you need to consider the likelihood that the company will ever return to good times.

Qt Android port: http://code.google.com/p/android-lighthouse/

So, what will happen?

1) Qt c++ devs will invest in Visual Studio and learn silverlight/XNA

or

2) Qt c++ devs simply switch to c++ development for iOS + Android

Isn't Qt covered under GPL? Could someone else run with it for their development platform? Or would there be patent problems etc?

I just hope Qt doesn't die.

Related discussion, 111 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1820320

Why didn't they choose Android?

No native code on WP7 is for me a major downturn. To port my apps to WP7 I'd have to do a complete rewrite - and that's work I won't do for an unproven market/platform.

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