[Qt-interest] Windows 8 Store

[Jason H]

More for WP7, but still applies (kinda)

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/05/microsoft-tries-luring-ios-devs-as-windows-phone-7-dev-interest-falters.ars?comments=1&p=21613300#comment-21613300


MS needs help with getting apps. I suggest they allow C++, and get Qt :-)



----- Original Message ----
From: Atlant Schmidt <aschmidt at dekaresearch.com>
To: "lorn.potter at nokia.com" <lorn.potter at nokia.com>; "sscc at mweb.co.za" 
<sscc at mweb.co.za>; "qt-interest at qt.nokia.com" <qt-interest at qt.nokia.com>
Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 7:10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Windows 8 Store

Lorn:

> 1. Smartphones (Windows Phone)
> 2. The next billion
> 3. Future Disruptions
>
> Take your pick on which one involves Qt.

  But Lorn, that's *PRECISELY* the problem for us
  out here in the real world. We (and more importantly,
  the people who pay us) don't want disruptions; we
  want a roadmap that clearly and smoothly addresses
  our needs for our current project and as well as
  for the next projects that we foresee in our own
  roadmaps.*

  On the other hand, Nokia's leadership wants dis-
  ruptions because, frankly, the path they were on
  would have certainly lead to their eventual collapse
  and the path they've now jumped onto likely leads
  to their eventual assimilation into the Borg, err,
  absorption into Microsoft.

  So Nokia wants a disruption, but most of us out
  here don't.

                       Atlant


* And frankly, for many of us, Qt's roadmap has been
  very-much misaligned with ours since Nokia bought
  the Trolls. Nokia has been focusing far too much
  on mobility and far too little on the desktop and
  have been nearly ignoring embedded.


-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com 
[mailto:qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of 
lorn.potter at nokia.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 22:55
To: sscc at mweb.co.za; qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Windows 8 Store

On 5/05/11 12:43 AM, "ext Alex Strickland" <sscc at mweb.co.za> wrote:

>On 04/05/2011 16:13, Jason H wrote:
>
>> Sure it would never be as big as Apple or MS or Google/Amazon's Android
>>but it
>> would help Qt app authors... The attractive WIN here that isn't done
>>anywhere
>> else is you could get the same app on your phone as for your desktop.
>>(Bundle
>> Phone and desktop versions, pending application suitability of course)
>>
>> Just a thought.
>
>I just wish I could figure why Qt has any value to Nokia any more.

http://conversations.nokia.com/nokia-strategy-2011/

1. Smartphones (Windows Phone)
2. The next billion
3. Future Disruptions


Take your pick on which one involves Qt.




-
Lorn Potter
Senior Software Engineer, Nokia, Qt Mobility




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