[Interest] Is Nokia officially done with Qt?

[Constantin Makshin]

I don't think that "mobile distraction" was really bad (but IMHO Symbian
took more attention than it deserved) — there are not many frameworks
that would be as both feature-rich and close to the "wrote once, run
everywhere" principle as Qt.

On 06/15/2012 07:00 PM, Jason H wrote:
> Bleak? I was annoyed when Nokia took over TT, because substantial the resources got moved to mobile. And I hated the preferred Symbian-was-the-favoriate updates.
> 
> Qt is still sub-par in many areas, especially web services (consuming/providing) and XML (If DOM is deprecated then we need Update functionality)
> QML is awesome though. 
> 
> I've always used it for desktop/server apps and will continue to do so. Glad the mobile distraction is over with. Let's get back to taking on .Net and Java..
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Harri Pasanen <harri at mpaja.com>
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Is Nokia officially done with Qt?
> 
> IMHO Qt on Android still has promise. For Android there is nice hardware 
> that runs Qt well, while on Nokia only N9 and the latest Symbian phones 
> with 512Mb of memory and VideoCore IV GPU give a good user experience 
> for a range of apps. Android version would need more developers though.
> 
> Also it would be good if some Android manufacturer would bake Qt in 
> phones at the factory. Or barring that, a couple of "must have" apps 
> done in Qt so that runtime would likely already be downloaded.
> 
> I guess RIM is now only remaining officially Qt supporting mobile 
> platform with new hardware in pipeline?
> 
> Windows 8 is a question mark, 
> http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5-on-Windows-8-and-Metro-UI doesn't give 
> any conclusive info about tablet and phone support yet.
> 
> I wasn't exactly betting the house on Meltemi, but the hope for it did 
> keep me motivated developing some N9 & Symbian Qt apps. No more...
> 
> So for mobile, Qt future is somewhat bleak at the moment, at least in my 
> eyes.
> 
> 
> Harri
> 
> 
> On 06/14/2012 11:09 PM, Jason H wrote:
>> 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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