[Qt-interest] Qt on Android

[Jason H]

Well, that'd be rather short sighted. Given that Nokia makes devices, then having same same apps across the devices in the industry  doesn't hurt, since iPhone has the most apps and the best apps. Anything Nokia and Google can do to erode that market share is good for the both of them. Supporting Qt on iPhone, Nokia, and Android devices would only ensure that the user can move to different handsets and expect the same softwares. What this also does, is get more developers using Qt because I can target everything (but RIM, Palm, porting to RIM, Palm not being discussed). Now, Qt is free so there's no profit there, but what this does is bring developers into supporting Nokia phones, if they had not planned to already. And I *want* to use Qt so I can address the three biggest players all at the same time. This also keeps Nokia from falling behind. Given that Nokia's market share is falling, they don't want to paint themselves into a corner. 

Also, as the line between phones, MIDs, tablets etc, blurs, habing able to have the same app on your phone as a netbook would be a good thing as well. But Qt will scale up to the PC too. Learning one tool for all phones and PCs will ensure its success. Nokia could then use the developers it captures and lure them into supporting Nokia as a first-class platform. Which would really benefit Nokia phones.



----- Original Message ----
From: Christian Dähn <daehn at asinteg.de>
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Mon, October 26, 2009 5:34:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Qt on Android

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But I'm afraid Nokia doesn't want to support competing mobile platforms :-(
...it's not only a technical - more a political reason not to support Android.

It would be very very interesting for me to have Qt support for Android.
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