[Interest] Is Nokia officially done with Qt?

[Jason H]

I understand why he said it.

Frankly, even the Qt way was going to fail unless someone brought Samsung on board (and they were shopping for something other than Android...)But $10b from MS got in the way. Now it looks like MS might buy Nokia or RIM which are both bad ideas because WP7 will die, Win8 will fail and we'll all be on Android or iOS.


So ends the Qt mobile experiment. Or does it? Anyone seen GNOME's Broadway (HTML Canvas renderer)? I plan to try to implement "Vaudeville" - the Qt version - once 5.0 is out. Barring that, Qt goes back to being for non-mobile apps and embedded systems.




________________________________
 From: Rui Maciel <rui.maciel at gmail.com>
To: interest at qt-project.org 
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Interest] Is Nokia officially done with Qt?
 

On 06/14/2012 05:22 PM, Paul Miller wrote:
> There was no mention at all about the fate of Qt. No reason to spread
> any FUD.

«Next billion strategy is based on Java. Period!» - Eero Penttinen 
‏@eeropenttinen
https://twitter.com/eeropenttinen/status/213209218164076544

Eero Penttinen, as in Nokia's domain lead for Qt and MeeGo. 
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Eero/Penttinen

By "next billion" I suspect he was referring to this:

Qt’s future for Nokia: Bringing apps to the next billion.
http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/06/21/qt%E2%80%99s-future-for-nokia-bringing-apps-to-the-next-billion/

So, it may be Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, but when it is self-inflicted 
we must pay some serious attention to it.


> No matter - all my Qt applications continue to work, I can still get
> Commercial support through Digia, and Open Governance will keep it going.

Let's hope that Qt stays healthy.  Although it isn't exactly perfect, 
it's the closest there is to it.  It would be painful to be forced to 
replace it with some other toolkit.


Rui Maciel
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