Nokia isn't backing them. Half of Jolla are former Nokia employees who left when Nokia dropped MeeGo in favor of Windows Phone. (The worst move in the history of cell phone companies.) MeeGo != Nokia && Never Did. MeeGo > Nokia.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Jason H <scorp...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I don't get why Nokia would back a potential competitor? > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Lorn Potter <lorn.pot...@gmail.com> > *To:* Jeff Tranter <jtran...@ics.com> > *Cc:* interest@qt-project.org > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:10 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Has anyone heard about Jolla? > > > On 12/07/2012, at 4:40 AM, Jeff Tranter wrote: > > > On 12-07-11 01:46 PM, Joseph Crowell wrote: > >> http://www.linkedin.com/company/jolla > > > > Yes. Not too many details yet. They don't appear to have a web site up > > yet but they have the domain name jollamobile.com. > > > > You can find their press release at a number of sites such as this one: > > http://nokiainnovation.com/2012/07/first-official-jolla-press-release > > > > Sounds like they will be using Qt and Mer and have been at this since > > late last year, presumably when they knew that Nokia was dropping MeeGo. > > Actually, they got started _because_ Nokia dropped MeeGo, apparently using > Nokia's bridge project. > http://www.mobot.net/nokia-jolla-44481 > > Interview with Jussi Hurmola: > > > http://www.intomobile.com/2012/07/11/interview-jussi-hurmola-ceo-jollamobile-audio-and-text-available/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Interest mailing list > > Interest@qt-project.org > > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > > > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > >
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