Nokia aming for Opera?

Nokia have acquired Trolltech, the Norwegian company behind the open source Qt technology. A technology found in software products such as the KDE, Skype, and Opera. Most news site are focusing on how this will affect KDE and other open source projects. I do not think Nokia’s main goal with this acquisition is to get control over the desktop computing trough KDE, as the web is buzzing about today. I think their target is the mobile web browser market trough Opera, another Norwegian software developer dependent on Qt.

Nokia is all about mobile phones. It is their key product. Software on the mobile platform has not yet become a huge business. With one exception: Opera Mini. It is the most popular mobile software on the market; and Nokia is not controlling it. I can only assume that Nokia have approached Opera Software ASA, but got rejected. So they went for the technology behind Opera instead.

This is only my speculative theory, but still. It makes more sense than that Nokia all the suddon should go head to head with Microsoft Windows.

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I though it sounded silly at first, but you may be into something here Daniel. Great peace.

Comment by Mark at 2008-02-12 @664.

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