[Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?

[Jason H]

Ok, Thiago, some numbers from the iPhone OS 4.0 talk:

iPad:
450,000 IPads sold so far
3.5M downloads to iPads so far
3,500 iPad-only Apps

iPhone:
50M units sold so far

iTouch:
35M units sold so far

App Store:
185,000 Apps so far

According to mobile browser usage:
64% iPhone
19% Android
9% Crackberry
8% Other (Nokia?)




----- Original Message ----
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Wed, April 7, 2010 2:16:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?

Em Quarta-feira 07 Abril 2010, às 19:37:12, Andrew Hodgkinson escreveu:
> So it's a bit silly that we're even saying this. The iPad is a 1GHz 
> platform (and an efficient 1GHz per cycle at that) with decent GPU and 
> 256MB RAM. Not all that long ago, you'd have run Windows XP on something 
> with a similar specification and called it a workstation. I really don't 
> see why you couldn't take a reasonably full featured Linux distro, stick 
> it on comparable hardware and get decent results - GUI aside. Battery 
> management may not be quite so good but that's software; improvements 
> therein would potentially benefit any mobile device using the OS.

And selling a bit of my fish here, this is exactly what Nokia and Intel are 
doing, with MeeGo (www.meego.com): a Linux distro on reasonably good hardware, 
plus a nice non-desktop UI.

And with Qt inside.

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