The Monday after
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Oh, a bit off, but check out the MeeGo advertisement on "Engadget's header":http://www.engadget.com/ ;)
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[quote author="CreMindES" date="1297715739"]Oh, a bit off, but check out the MeeGo advertisement on "Engadget's header":http://www.engadget.com/ ;)[/quote]
That's not off topic at all :) Because at Intel as well, developing apps for MeeGo is all about Qt :) So, yup, very on topic information :)
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Some analysis from outside the box:
http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/02/14/nokia-shares-extend-fall-on-jpmorgan-downgrade/
Microsoft is charging Nokia a royalty for using WM7, which surprised the analysts, and it’s still unclear how much the alliance will benefit Nokia: “The fact that MSFT is charging a royalty for its OS in the face of Android also shows, in our opinion, a failure to grasp the platform economics at work.”
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I think the problem is that people get overly emotional over a companies sudden change of direction.
I remember when Microsoft decided to scrap VB, and start down the .Net path. There was mass panic, chaos, wild speculation, and a huge outcry from the developers...until they started using the .Net framework...fast forward to today and all the windows developers joke about the old school way of doing things and loves .Net....
MFC...yuck...
VB6...never again!!!Was it scary, frustrating, stressful...you bet.
The same thing is happening now with Java and Oracle. The java forums are on fire with chaos, confusion, conspiracy theories and developer outcries. Oracle has too much invest in java, they need java...will java survive...yes...will it change....yes.
Today the cycle starts again with Nokia and Qt.
Change is hard, people hate it, but this move makes good business sense to the execs at nokia...they know apple, google, and microsoft...stakes are high and the competition is tough.
I am not an expert in Qt, but I have used many languages, libraries, and frameworks over the years, probably more then I care to admit, (anyone else miss pascal?) - I probably just dated myself, but the point I am making is this...
Tools come and go, the good tools stay for a long time. C++ has stood the test of time, and Qt is a damn good tool to work with a damn good language.
Qt was successful before before it was bought by Nokia and will continue to be a success no matter what Nokia does to it. Because we the developers will always use the right tool for the job.
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[quote author="dguimard" date="1297713337"]Dear all,
the post at
Live from 'An Evening With Nokia' at MWC 2011
is interesting as well.http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/13/live-from-an-evening-with-nokia-at-mwc-2011/
regards
david
[/quote]In the above link CEO or some other big executive says this:
6:51PM "At the same time, there's been a lot of speculation in the blogosphere about whether Qt will be part of our 'next billion' strategy. We have not made any decisions."I am wondering if the decision has not been made about the use of Qt at all, how the hell other Nokia top guys on the blog saying that they will continue qt in millions of other device. and Next Billion stuff.
By the way does any one knows what is this Next Billion Strategy?? -
rootshell, the only thing I'm sad because of, is that I think, and I think I'm not alone with this idea, Nokia was just on the very right path with making better and better Symbian and developing MeeGo (maybe not to pruduce more maemo devices was a little mistake in the past, but we will never know it), and seeing that it's just about to turn the boat, it's not good for us, who only owned Nokia devices.
Qt is great, it will be great, but these are confusing times, and Qt and QML is just making a big step, and it's also not to hear that the safe background about to change in the middle of this step.
Thas's all thoughts I wanted to add to this subject.
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[quote author="Immii" date="1297756040"]
In the above link CEO or some other big executive says this:
6:51PM "At the same time, there's been a lot of speculation in the blogosphere about whether Qt will be part of our 'next billion' strategy. We have not made any decisions."I am wondering if the decision has not been made about the use of Qt at all, how the hell other Nokia top guys on the blog saying that they will continue qt in millions of other device. and Next Billion stuff.
By the way does any one knows what is this Next Billion Strategy??
[/quote]Here's what Aron replied to this on our "blog":http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/14/update-on-qt/#comment-2881
bq. I want to address one point some people have mis-interpreted: When I said that Qt is being evaluated for the Nokia Mobile Phone strategy, I was referring to the second pillar in our three-pillared strategy going forward. The first pillar is Smartphones, which will be based on Windows Phone. The second strategy is Mobile Phones, which has the vision of bringing the Internet to the next billion people. Qt is being evaluated as the framework for that platform, although no decisions have been made.
