Re: Nokia buys Trolltech, Ari says
 

IMHO, Symbian is overstretched and bent to fit on some smart phones - e.g. the E90, and linux has proven that it can be very effective in a consumer environment (TomTom GO, Nokia tablets, Motorola phones), so maybe the success of the 800 & 810 will mean a proper linux smartphone from Nokia? If so, OpenMoko will need to make a leap ahead, and speed up development, as they're a long way off a general-purpose fit-for-consumer distribution.

Re: Nokia buys Trolltech, Ari says
 

Not sure it's a good news for commercial qt..

Re: Nokia buys Trolltech, Ari says
 

I'd love to see more C++ on maemo!

Re: Nokia buys Trolltech, Ari says
 

It's not Symbian that's overstretched, but rather S60. Symbian itself scales effortlessly, but S60 really never was intended for more than a tiny screen and T9 text input.

Re: Nokia buys Trolltech, Ari says
 

C++ is a pain IMHO concerning shared libraries. This would open up dependency hell on the tablets. Please keep C++ away from the tablets.

Re: Nokia buys Trolltech, Ari says
 

I'm surprised we haven't heard from penguinbait yet. I bet this news will make for less effort in his KDE-on-NIT project.

I also sort of wonder, in the back of my mind, if this might lead to KDE-on-NIT (or something a lot like it) being the official Maemo GUI.

Re: Nokia buys Trolltech, Ari says
 

Okay, Visual Basic then.

:p

Re: Nokia buys Trolltech, Ari says
 

I couldn't agree more. C++ is the dullard's version of OOP in C. Better to go with Objective-C, or even just do your high level app development in a language that isn't C based at all.

Re: Nokia buys Trolltech, Ari says
 

Another article: http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/28/news...ce=yahoo_quote

Re: Nokia buys Trolltech, Ari says
 

I wonder how this affect Maemo as a whole. I guess an updated Qt library for Maemo will be released and current Qt-based apps will be easier to port. It's either that or Maemo will be replaced by KDE, which is a bit too drastic.