[Qt-interest] Qt as true mobile multi-platform framework.

[David Ching]

"Constantin Makshin"  wrote in message 
news:201011061155.18370.cmakshin at gmail.com...

>Well, even if Qt isn't a true [mobile] multi-platform framework, I hope you
> won't deny that it has one of the largest list of supported platforms?

Of course, Qt has a great history of this!


> Firstly, Monotouch was developed before Apple introduced those extra 
> restrictions.
> Secondly, if you read the last paragraph of 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)#MonoTouch
> or the article at 
> http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/apple-takes-aim-at-adobe-or-android.ars 
> ,
> you'll see that Monotouch was in the same, of not worse (at least Qt 
> itself
> and applications based on it are written in C++), situation as Qt would 
> be.

No argument.


>Windows 7 is Tier 1 if MSVC 2008 is used to compile Qt and its 
>applications.
> It's "Windows 7 - MSVC 2010" combination that's Tier 2. Considering a 
> critical
> bug in MSVC2010 64-bit compiler 
> (http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-11445)
> that was fixed in the end of September, "Tier 2" status of MSVC 2010 
> doesn't look so surprising.

Yes, thank you for the correction.  Nevertheless, it was some months after 
Windows 7 was released following a very long RC process that went very 
smoothly that it became Tier 1 in Qt.  Too long in my view.


> And Android port, I think, would be in Tier 3.
> Also, Android and, especially, iPhone are in the same situation — they 
> both
> are products of Nokia's direct competitors. It's sad, but understandable, 
> that a
> commercial company doesn't want to put effort and money into support of
> competing products.

Well, another view is Nokia could get a lot of developers onto their brand 
new phones for free if Qt targeted Android and iPhone too.  Developers have 
more incentive to develop for these established platforms (more users = more 
dollars), but if all they had to do was rebuild and re-test to target Nokia, 
they would probably do that.  It depends whether Nokia feels they have more 
product differentiation on their phones or on their programming development!

-- David