[Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?

[Jason H]

Respectfully, and I repeat respectfully, in order to understand my and other peoples interest in the iPlatforms...
I don't see people clamoring to develop apps for Nokia devices.
I don't see Engadget and Gizmodo live-blogging the Nokia OS releases.

While there are no apples-apples comparisons betwen the app stores, I did find out:
Nokia: 61M Ovi store users * Avg 8 downloads per Ovi user = 488M downloads. 
Apple: 4B downloads for Apple, 85M iPhone/Touch units = 47 apps/person
Now, the Ovi store serves multiple phone platforms, but 5800 XpressMusic and N97 are the #1 and  #2 devices

Which means that the Apple market is 25% bigger and my app will make it onto 6 times as many Apple devices as Nokia. That is by far the most interesting statistic to me as an app developer. Unless, you could counter  with Ovi users pay 6x more for their apps (and are happy about that). But it looks like they only pay 50% more ($1.57 Ovi, conversion vs $0.99 Apple)

I have no problem writing apps for Nokia devices. None. In fact, my next (non-development, regular use) phone will probably be a Nokia. I hate the closed-ness of the Apple and the App Store. I do believe that open phones are the future. But just like you need OpenOffice on Windows to get people off the Windows platform, you need Qt on the iPhone. Having the same apps on both would ease the transition. But I do expect Apple to revise their terms as open phones (Android, Nokia) rise and storm the Apple castle. Meego is probably the best option for the open phone future. But to get that assured MeeGo has to court the current Android phone platform manufacturers and developers

I just saw a post on Engadget that Adobe expects negative impacts from Apple and HTML5.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/09/adobe-says-iphone-ipad-adoption-and-alternative-technologies/

If anyone knows, could someone enlighten me/us about why Maemo/MeeGo isn't seeing the adoption that Android is? Is it just Google?

----- Original Message ----
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Fri, April 9, 2010 11:47:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?

Em Sexta-feira 09 Abril 2010, às 17:01:19, Jason H escreveu:
> Nokia does not have the upper hand in the smart phone market

Huh? So being market leader and shipping more devices than the competitors 
doesn't mean upper hand?

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