[Qt-interest] Qt on Android

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Segunda-feira 26 Outubro 2009, às 17:21:02, você escreveu:
> 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.

You're basically quoting my presentation at Dev Days about Convergence (except 
the part about Android and iPhone ports). I was making the case about using Qt 
to cross any kind of device boundary: from desktop PCs to laptops to MIDs and 
tablets to mobiles. And also about using the web where it makes sense.

But I'd like to point out that you forgot one of the three biggest players in 
the list above: Windows Mobile. It's still larger than Android and Qt supports 
it.

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