Knut, That was a brilliant description of why Qt is here to stay in the Mobility sector as well as a good overview of why people should continue using and pick up this (Qt) development framework :)
Thanks, Tom. On 29/09/2011 14:13 Knut Yrvin wrote: On Onsdag 28. september 2011, ext Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > Is this a joke? To be blunt Pau Garcia, Kate got it right. Here is why: Symbian will be supported until at least 2016[1]. As we speak there are +9 million apps downloads to Symbian daily. Many of those are made with Qt. The German marked study from Research2guidance shows, the "Symbian" store OVI generates highest average download per app[2]. 1. http://mynokiablog.com/2011/05/26/elop-in-china-symbian-support-until-at- least-2016/ 2. http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/07/bigger-isnt-always-better-nokia-ovi-store- apps-downloaded-160-more-than-ios-apps/ Qt is used by +400.000 developers in 70 different industries, from making top notch animation tools for 3D block busting moves[3][4] to chicken incubators. It's a part of Linux Standard Base, and provide a fully fledged, industry and community tested framework, documented API's which is competitive with the other SDK's in any market. 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mo-FN_fQy0 4. http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use The real strength of Qt/QML/Qt Webkit Integration with HTML5 support, is that it's a cross platform framework. You're not limited onto a single OS, or one single Linux stack. The cross platform nature of Qt is somewhat unknown for many developers who focus on Linux only. There are exceptions where e.g VLC, which is using Qt's cross platforms. The VLC developers don't need to rewrite their code for Windows (they actually compiles the Windows binaries on Linux ...). In this perspective, MeeGo and now Tizen is just another targets for those who are using Qt to make rich user experiences with touch an animations. It's here QML really shines. The cross platform properties of Qt enables developers to target Tizen in addition to many other Linux distributions and other operating systems[5]. This includes hybrid Internet apps with HTML5 through Qt Webkit integration. One example of many, where a company successfully are using Qt for blending their HTML5 "app" with richer Qt functionality is Netflix[6]: 5. http://cutehacks.com/2011/02/14/cross-platform-apps-at-mwc/ 6. http://developer.qt.nokia.com/videos/watch/developing_the_netflix_tv_movie_streaming_service_with_qt What's unfortunate in your line of argument Pau Garcia, is the zero sum game you're playing. And you're playing zero sum in a highly changing computer industry. Locking 4-5 years back, much has changed. In this environment more and more companies has included Qt, shipping millions of devices or reaching more downloads than ever with apps made with Qt. You can engage in this growing market, targeting more systems with Qt than other framework[6]. Or you can restrict your self to a single "platform" with zero sum thinking. When your limiting your self with zero sum arguments, remember this: You are imposing restrictions onto your own thinking. Your thinking does not reflect on to all those who are using Qt already, and successfully are shipping thousands or millions of Qt based apps, cross devices, Linux-distributions and other operating environments. Best regards Knut Yrvin -- Qt Developer Days 2011 – REGISTER NOW! October 24 – 26, Munich November 29 – December 1, San Francisco Learn more and Register at http://qt.nokia.com/qtdevdays2011 _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list MeeGo-community@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
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