[Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?

[Andreas Unger]

Personally, I think the best way to solve this problem is to start a serious
non-official porting project with at least 10 active committers. That way,
Nokia doesn't have to commit resources to a project that might be
whimsically blocked at the last hour by the powers that be. The only other
way is talking to Apple and drawing up a contract.

We can try as much as possible to keep within Apple's explicit developers'
contract which I think is possible.

Now, seeing that Apple is increasingly becoming tyrannical even though we
love their products, if our Qt apps don't end up being allowed on the app
store anyone who'd like to run a Qt app on the iPad should happily jailbreak
it.

Cheers,
Andreas

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Tonu Jaansoo <chain at bsd.ee> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Write once, run everywhere- but dont expect for support. I don't expect.
>  So are we cool? :-P
>
> Why is it a topic at all? Anyone has possibility to port Qt to iPhone OS if
> he or she really wants... or have i missed something?
> Why would Nokia want to do this for you.
>
> Tonu.
>
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 9:15 PM, Jason H wrote:
>
> > Because we both love Qt. And you want it to be on the iPhone just as much
> as anyone else. "Search your feelings, you *know* it to be true!"
> >
> > And we know you/Qt Frameworks is not stupid. It can't ever be a bad thing
> to have users clamoring for your product in more places :-)  But sometimes
> you have to say no, because there are more important things that resources
> need to be allocated to. We don't know those things, or the internal agenda.
> We just know what we want, and are being vocal about it.
> >
> > I do thank you for responding and taking this seriously, and providing
> the input that you have. Indeed you are absolutely correct, Qt Frameworks
> should get a blessing from Apple before making any kind of resource
> commitment (going fwd without one would be stupid, just like Adobe has now
> wasted their resources on a useless iPhone Flash compiler) , and none of us
> here can provide that assurance. But I think the take away from all this is
> there is significant interest from your users, and that can feed into the
> future decisions.
> >
> > Again, thanks for taking my feeble statistics seriously and chiming in. I
> now consider this thread closed (until someone joins the list and asks again
> next week!)
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>
> > To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> > Sent: Fri, April 9, 2010 1:01:27 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?
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> > ...
> > Anyway, I don't know why I am still replying to this thread.
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