[Interest] Qt for Android & iOS

[Attila Csipa]

On 04/25/2012 04:17 PM, Jason H wrote:
> I had considered that, but rejected it because Apple designs and 
> manufactures its own chips. Therefore, they would change their CPU 
> design rather than switch architectures.
>

AFAIK Apple doesn't manufacture their chips - they are in fact, fairly 
famous for being fabless. They do design/tweaking, but that's a 
different story. And to return to the previous point - architecture 
matters a lot less than people would assume here. This is not the 
desktop world where transitions take 3 years, mobile hardware and 
software ages a LOT faster, so as much as it hurts the perfectionist 
engineer inside compatibility nowadays means a lot less than it did 
previously (feel free to disagree). Also (just to alienate the audience 
further ;) ) the architecture portability of "Android" Java means less 
than you might think - performance hungry applications/libraries already 
extensively use the NDK, and a large amount of Android/Dalvik 
optimizations is actually fairly ARM specific.

Attila
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