Interesting Article on Nokia
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In fact, I am quite furious ... I have invest time in learning QML in order to target Meego tablet... There was a lot of positive feedback regarding meego in September after the coming of Elop ... A lot of communication, presentation, courses, ... regarding Meego and Symbian ... In JANUARY the post regarding QtDev 2010 : http://qt.nokia.com/developer/learning/online/talks/developerdays2010 ... A lot of meego stuff .... since some month Elop is LYING about meego, Qt, Symbian... The NoKiCrosoft can't be a recent strategy .. it takes month to take this decision .... For me the real boost for meego and symbian was since September 2010 ... You can't have the result of the developpement in 4 months ...
I am furious and I am just a LGPL User ... I can imagine what think people paying for a license !!!!
I hopes that there I will be a lot of manifestation of Linux Fundation, Qt and Kde community, Big commercial User :
- What's about a petition saying that Qt developer will not develop using .Net and so focus development on Android, or something else ....
- What think Trolltech funder ? What think Qt paid developper inside Nokia ... I suppose they can talk
- I suppose a spin off for Trolltech will be the best but it needs a commercial model (Like the blender fundation but with big commercial user investing in it ?) True Crossplatform support for mobile and desktop ...
I do not usually take parts to troll like this ... but I think here ... it's too much .. too many ressources and energy lost .... It seems Shareholder are not happy also (-10%) ...
Perhaps I am a little bit too woory ... Qt will continue .... But honestly I am afraid I am right :(
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Maybe Nokia will sell Qt to another company... Maybe it would be better for Qt to be led by a company that is independent from operating systems and thus enabling Qt to be a true cross-platform-library, not only on desktop systems but also on mobile devices.
Nevertheless Nokia really did put a lot of effort into Qt throughout the last years and I just can't believe Nokia would just up all of that.
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Yes that's incredible to invest like this and just after trash it like this ...
I really hopes that a "Software Developping" Company will buy Trolltech soon ... But I am afraid that the strategy of Nokia is more to use Qt before the death of Symbian ... then trash it when the transition is over ...
Clearly since few years development where turn to mobile, desktop was not a first class citizen in qt roadmap ... So :( -
[quote author="marsupial" date="1297426942"]Nevertheless Nokia really did put a lot of effort into Qt throughout the last years and I just can't believe Nokia would just up all of that.[/quote]
They did with Meego/Maemo - and that was not cheap too. I would not bet a single penny on this. Always keep in mind that the rationale behind those decisions is not to satisfy customers or developers, but the analysts and shareholders. The quarterly report for the stock exchange is everything they have to care for.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/rip-symbian/
No comment ... second slide ... no more Qt ... but Windows Phone....
Nobody from Qt can react to that ? -
i have to say this is a sad day, i was just ramping up my skills for QT, but now the future is bleak at best, being a Window C++ developer by profession I have to say this is one union i am not happy to see
i have no idea what to think about nokia or QT going forward
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I hope there will be some official announcements the next days, next week. From my opinion, also the Trolls have to think about the new sirtuation...
Hopefully, for desktop environment, it will stay and be extended.
If that also happens for mobiule platforms, we will see.
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Gr... $tephen Elop ¬¬ !
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Please. People. This is not a personal decision so don't make it personal. I am as frustrated by the implication of Nokia's new direction as you are. But the man has a company to save and made the best decision he can in the situation. We may not like it, but we don't have to vent by mangling persons' names and other childish means.
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what's about an open letter to Nokia Shareholder (-16 % share at this time ), to finnish govermnent, European Union that has invest more than 22 millions € in Symbian (http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/europe-invests-in-symbian-its-smartphone-os-of-choice/) to explain the non sense of this resell to microsoft, the big invest that go to trash ...
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[quote author="Stephen Chu" date="1297452965"]Please. People. This is not a personal decision so don't make it personal. I am as frustrated by the implication of Nokia's new direction as you are. But the man has a company to save and made the best decision he can in the situation. We may not like it, but we don't have to vent by mangling persons' names and other childish means.[/quote]
He (and the board, lets not forget that) made the worst possible decision ever. Any other operating system (Android, MeeGo or webOS) is a better choice than Windows Phone. Who "loves" Bing and Office, seriously? Proprietary systems only work for companies that do a 100% integration like Apple.
WP7 only exists because Microsoft has a "magic" supply of money that they can afford to waste on a toy that exists solely to hurt Apple and Google. If MS grows tired of it, Nokia will be left out in the cold.
Nokia has now become just another LG.