buying a cross-platform development framework does not automatically make you know how to build good software, unfortunately for Nokia. They were not particularly good at it using Symbian. I don't see how this acquisition changes that. My Nokia N76 (which I like) has a HORRIBLE music interface. Browsing and playing are quite obviously 2 separate applications.
For an idea of just how bad it is, just from an organizational standpoint, here's a look on my mostly abandoned blog: http://notes.motiontek.com/?p=29 this can easily be replicated in its full badness with QT. Hopefully will not, but I think the underlying UI framework is the least of their worries. MT On Mar 8, 2008, at 2:28 AM, Pankaj Chawla wrote: >> BlackBerry is dead. Microsoft is dead. Windows Mobile is dead. Amazon >> is dead. Kindle is dead. Nokia is dead. Motorola was already dead but >> now they are even more dead. Google's Android is dead. Samsung is >> dead. LG is dead. Sony is dead. UTStarcom is dead. > > I dont know about others but Nokia sure aint dead. It recently bought > a company called Trolltech that makes C++ toolkit by the names of Qt > for desktops and Qtopia for the mobile world. Its a proven technology > and extensively used for a decade now and what makes it beautiful is > that your application code is same for Windows, Unix and Mac (Yes, Qt > is available on Mac also). To top it all it also has the same toolkit > targetted for Java by the name QT Jambi. It comes with thousands > of programmers who have been programming using it for a decade and > since the toolkit scales from mobiles to desktops seamlessly and from > Windows to Mac to Linux also seamlessely, its one power weapon that > Nokia just acquired. It just needs to be seen how Nokia uses this to > combat Iphone API and Google Android but if I as a developer have to > bet my money I will surely put a large bet on Nokia-Trolltech combine > though I wont ignore Iphone API and Android totally :). Nokia through > Trolltech also gets onto the LiMo (Linux Mobile) platform and I wont > be surprised if symbian gives way to LiMo-Qt combination in future > Nokia devices and that sure will be one hell of a platform to beat :-) > > Cheers > Pankaj > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
