[Qt-interest] I see the Trolls are being sold to Digia

[Atlant Schmidt]

d3fault:

> They probably/hopefully want to focus on adding new functionality/compatibility
> instead of doing tedious bug fixes for business customers

  You understand that it was *PRECISELY* this behavior that
  led to Nokia's problems with Symbian, right? They were so
  busy rushing new functionality out the door that they didn't
  have time to do those "tedious" bug fixes for customers who'd
  already spent their good money on blatantly-broken phones.

  I'm not suggesting this is how Qt does its business, but it's
  certainly how Nokia as a whole has been doing its business
  and it is one of the major factors contributing to Symbian's
  currently-abysmal reputation in the marketplace.

  Let's not see Qt rush down that road too.

                                                    Atlant

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I have faith in nokia. They probably/hopefully want to focus on adding new functionality/compatibility instead of doing tedious bug fixes for business customers. Who's to say nokia won't have an app store and take a slice once they start rolling out MeeGo phones? All MeeGo needs to compete with ms/google/apple is a good marketing campaign (and deep pockets for said marketing campaign). The different phone operating systems all provide more or less the same functionality at the end of the day. The submitted apps on the MeeGo phones' store would kick any other cell phone store's ass because it would attract a metric fuck ton of developers who want to be able to CODE ONCE and have all their apps run (natively) on a cell phone, tablet, windows, mac, and linux desktop.... and be able to charge money for it without paying any licensing fees (nokia takes a distribution fee for selling it on the MeeGo app market)... but anyone could sell their apps themselves on a website or in a store on an old fashioned cd-rom.

Yea, Qt's dead man... :p

The owner of Qt is irrelevant. Nokia could sell it, disban it, delete it, burn it, even call it a piece of shit... but it'd still survive. Projects like Qt stand above the corporations that owns them.

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