[Qt-interest] Many have not aware about this letter, Its for all who relies on Nokia

Fri Feb 11 12:24:03 CET 2011

AFAIK it's almost impossible to port Qt to WP7. Look at the specs :-(

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From: qt-interest-bounces+skolar=kerio.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+skolar=kerio.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Mihail Naydenov
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 10:44 AM
To: qt next; qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Many have not aware about this letter, Its for all who relies on Nokia

Here it is
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/nokia-notifies-developers-that-qt-is-out-for-windows-phone-devel/

From: qt next <qtnext at gmail.com>
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Fri, February 11, 2011 11:28:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Many have not aware about this letter, Its for all who relies on Nokia

I hopes we will have a clear word about the future of Qt.... If it was not bought by Nokia : at this time Qt will certainly port to android, to match qt everywhere... It seems it's clearly not a technical problem, but more a choice. 
I am not also a business startegist ...but for me, if Nokia go to WP7 a port of Qt to WP7 is a must have to ensure to Nokia a fast shift to another platform if needed in the futur (who knows ... 1 year later the revolution with meego, 6 month latter the revolution with Symbian + Meego : a ecosystem ....

just some previous comment of Elop on Qt, Meego :

http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/02/15/nokia-and-intel-create-meego-for-new-era-of-mobile-computing/

http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/10/21/stephen-elop-talks-nokia-qt-and-meego/

http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/01/27/stephen-elop-talks-strengths-successes-and-the-future/
(for the developer ... don't know ... can change :(

... .And now...  :(

2011/2/11 Mikael Helbo Kjær <mhk at designtech.dk>
> 11.02.2011, 11:11, "kaolite gmail" <kaolite at gmail.com>:
> > incredible ... silly ! meego to the trash ... and WP7 instead .. a
> none sense !!
>
> +1
>
> Especially taking into account that WP7 is not really successful on the
> market
And it won't be in my opinion. It is not that it is not innovative or pretty, it may a bit too controlled (according to some articles I've read MS dictates a lot about the hardware of the phone even down to the design) but it is mostly too late. Nokia does provide MS with a partner in phones outside of HTC whose big sellers are currently Android phones in this but Nokia is not really "big" with regards to modern smartphones. RIM and HP with their alternative platforms are struggling to make a big impact and RIM at least used to be a big player. WP7 would have to seriously out-innovate Android and iOS at this point to prevent Android becoming the equivalent of the Windows of the current Mobile age (however it is a more dynamic market than the desktop market with regards to replacements) and that is not looking likely even with Nokia's help. Business types and investors will like this and I think it will positively affect Nokia's stock prices, but really if the entire reason fo
 r Nokia not to use Android was to distinguish itself and not be reliant on Google, how is WP7 an improvement (outside of course that the new manager of Nokia is an old Microsoft manager)?

On the Qt front you'd have to fear the eventual erosion and possible slow death of Qt Software as a department of Nokia. It is not strategically well placed with regards to the new WP7 strategy which is clearly tied to Windows. A MS/Nokia alliance would naturally become about C# (which is the access level most app developers have on WP7 AFAIK) not native C++ and definitely not about being cross-platform.

Nokia never seemed to have much interest in being a desktop software developer, this was the original fear of most of the naysayers when Nokia bought Trolltech and behold where it has invested a lot of its R&D: QML (best for Mobile at the moment and near future as well as clearly designed as an mobile app GUI platform), Webkit (so-so on both sides of the desktop/mobile fence), a massive Symbian extension of Qt (understandable, but not really helping much as Symbian is dead or people want it to be) and much improved dev-tools for C++ (clearly a win for both desktop and mobile). In the future if successful Nokia will "deprecate" Qt from their product list, not the death of the library but I would expect first layoffs and a development slow-down. In the case it is not successful then maybe by hedging their bets a little and riding along with Meego they might get a smaller boost again but I doubt it. At the very least this is unwelcome news for Nokia's Qt folks and over time this
 could have ripples into the businesses of people here on the list and KDE (smaller consultancies and even a new Trolltech could popup to keep Qt the library alive but I doubt it would be the same).

Given current market momentum I believe Qt would have been better served by having it be compatible with Android earlier on. That would have given more chance of apps being developed that could be crossed over to the Meego/Symbian world instead of going it alone. The compatibility could still happen through Lighthouse but I doubt it will help much at this point if not officially endorsed by Qt's developers and I wonder what the corporate leaders within Nokia would say to any part of their business supporting a cross-mobile strategy even if that was part of the original spirit of Qt.

But then I am not a business strategist or do I know what is going on for real inside Nokia. So take all of this with a grain of salt.

Regards,
Mikael

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