[Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?

[Georg Grabler]

There are some major factors:
- Development costs of a port to a "new" platform
- The continous cost of maintaining the support for the platform
- The real benefit of a Qt port to another platform

My personal point:
There is no industry standard for a framework, which means that one vendor
would either need to support all opposing platforms, or that all vendors
would have to work together on one framework, and I see both very unlikely
to happen at any time.

The real question is: how's the business case about it? I don't know the
exact resources a Qt port needs, but there are for sure some people working
on it, so for sure some hundred thousand Euros a year. Besides that, a port
is not the solution to have all developers for iOS using it to create cross
platform applications for Nokia devices. Very likely, Qt applications built
for Nokia devices would be ported to the iPhone Qt instead the other way
round, and this case for sure won't turn out well. The result could be that
all applications which exist for Nokia devices exist for other devices as
well, but not the other way round.

Symbian and MeeGo for sure are somthing where Nokia is in a win-win
situation. For others, I personally doubt it.
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