Nokia is dying faster than expected - I hope Qt will survive

lgeyer

[quote author="sierdzio" date="1312827201"]
[quote author="VitorAMJ" date="1312826446"]bq. Also even if Nokia made sure that Qt was going to be supported as a development option in their coming Windows Phone 7 devices,

Sorry, didn't they do that?

Thanks,[/quote]

No, as far as I know, WP7 will be Silverlight-only, and there is no plan to officially support it. At least, that's what was on the news a few months ago.[/quote]

The punchline is that (there are rumors that) Microsoft has (will) more or less dropped support for Silverlight a few weeks ago :-)

mlong

Might as well ask "here":mailto:steveb@microsoft.com for that one. ;-) But, in all seriousness, as said many times before, Qt's not going anywhere any time soon! No worries!

VitorAMJ

:-)

bq. Lukas Geyer wrote:
The punchline is that Microsoft has more or less dropped support for Silverlight a few weeks ago :-)

Interesting, do you have a link for this info?
Thanks again.

vsorokin

@VitorAMJ
Rumors: http://winfuture.de/news,63646.html
http://www.osnews.com/story/24846/Windows_8_HTML5_JS_Comment_Causes_Panic_Among_Developers

lgeyer

Microsoft is going HTML5/JS with Windows 8 and there are rumors that those will become the leading development platform (and thus dropping Silverlight, .NET and WPF).

Vass has posted some good reads on it.

VitorAMJ

Thanks!
Well maybe this is the reason why Qt 5 is going to support JS stuff.
Sometime ago, some people complained about JS in Qt 5. In fact it seems a strategy, i.e., Qt 5 is being prepared to align to that new model...

kamalakshantv

Also a few months ago I had read somewhere that Qt5 won't be supported for Symbian.

qtnext

IOS !!! http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/08/09/update-on-uikit-lighthouse-platform/#comments

lgeyer

JFYI: Gartner just "released":http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/11/gartner-android-os-sales-top-ios-rim-and-nokia/ mobile devices sales for Q2 2011.

bq. ... Google and Apple are the “obvious winners” in the smartphone ecosystem. The combined share of iOS and Android doubled nearly 62% in the second quarter of this year, up from just over 31% in same quarter last year. Google’s mobile operating system now accounts for 43.4% of all smartphone sales, up from 17.2% Q2 2010. And Apple reached 18.2%, up from 14.1% at the same time.

bq. Symbian is now at 22.1%, down from 40.9%.

bq. When looking at the mobile phone sales by vendor, Nokia is still on top, with 22.8% of the overall mobile market.

Microsoft (Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 combined) dropped from 3,6% to 1,6% (again Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 combined).

skypjack

However, MeeGo and QtQuick were not here. :-)

antonovputrevski

[quote author="Lukas Geyer" date="1312836056"]Microsoft is going HTML5/JS with Windows 8 and there are rumors that those will become the leading development platform (and thus dropping Silverlight, .NET and WPF).

Vass has posted some good reads on it.[/quote]

Another bad news for programmers... I've been studying .NET for a while now and thats bad news for me..

Franzk

[quote author="antonovputrevski" date="1313368192"]Another bad news for programmers... I've been studying .NET for a while now and thats bad news for me..[/quote]I honestly think you could have seen that one coming...