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don_falcone 2012-01-03 12:52
Re: Qt headed to WP ?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by pycage (Post 1145060)
IMHO it doesn't really matter whether you can develop with Qt for WP or not.

As long as you cannot run your own software on your own phone without paying a yearly ransom to Microsoft, WP is not attractive for developers coming from the open world.
...side story:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/...ew-hits-a-snag

:D

shmerl 2012-01-03 15:28
Re: Qt headed to WP ?
 
I'd say the availability of NDK for WP has the same interest for FOSS like ability to have ports for desktop Windows (like that of Firefox, LibreOffice etc.). I.e. it helps people to switch away from proprietary platforms, while still maintaining some familiar software stack :)

rm42 2012-01-04 18:16
Re: Qt headed to WP ?
 
Alright. I will make Nokia/MS an offer. Give me a device where I can develop and run PyQt applications and I will buy it. Otherwise, forget it.

There!

pycage 2012-01-04 20:01
Re: Qt headed to WP ?
 
Since WP7 is nothing but a runtime environment for Sliverlight and XNA applets, Qt on WP7 is even technically totally out of scope.

rm42 2012-01-04 21:18
Re: Qt headed to WP ?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by pycage (Post 1145810)
Since WP7 is nothing but a runtime environment for Sliverlight and XNA applets, Qt on WP7 is even technically totally out of scope.
Well, I guess it is forget it. Now, don't say I wasn't willing to compromise. :p

mikecomputing 2012-01-04 21:47
Re: Qt headed to WP ?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by automagic68 (Post 1143859)
You realize if WP fails then the Nokia Microsoft partnership will fail and ultimately Nokia's smartphone division will fail. Whatever marketshare/mindshare Symbian has is getting swallowed up by iOS and Android at an ever increasing rate. For atleast the next three years, it's in every Nokia fans best interest that WP is a success with the help of Nokia. With three major OSes for smartphones each with roughly 25-35% marketshare/mindshare, Nokia would have the opportunity to release a FOSS “disruption” after splitting with MS. Hopefully the MS Nokia partnership can give Nokia the opportunity to have a dominant global marketshare/mindshare again.
I dont give a **** what happens to nokia cause they aldready is microsoft. Look at the stock value for **** sake 50 percen down since that idiotboard decided to go wp!

Kangal 2012-01-05 03:04
Re: Qt headed to WP ?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by pycage (Post 1145810)
Since WP7 is nothing but a runtime environment for Sliverlight and XNA applets, Qt on WP7 is even technically totally out of scope.
Not 100% true, but you are right it would be a pointless move by Microsoft.

But what I posted above does make sense= ARM-based tablets utilizing the Qt-framework within Windows8.

kureyon 2012-01-05 04:36
Re: Qt headed to WP ?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by automagic68 (Post 1143859)
You realize if WP fails then the Nokia Microsoft partnership will fail and ultimately Nokia's smartphone division will fail.
So it's "our" fault if we don't all go out and buy Nokia's WP phones to help rescue Nokia from it's "bad decision of the decade"?

Quote:
It's in every Nokia fans best interest that WP is a success with the help of Nokia.
Assuming that all Nokia fans do rush out and buy up all Nokia WP phones and make it a "success". What do you think is more likely:

a) Elop announces that the deal with Microsoft is a resounding success and will build on it to make even more WP phones

or

b) Elop announces Nokia is making too much money on WP phones so now it will spend it on making a "FOSS disruption" phone.

automagic68 2012-01-05 05:37
Re: Qt headed to WP ?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kureyon (Post 1145985)
So it's "our" fault if we don't all go out and buy Nokia's WP phones to help rescue Nokia from it's "bad decision of the decade"?

Assuming that all Nokia fans do rush out and buy up all Nokia WP phones and make it a "success". What do you think is more likely:

a) Elop announces that the deal with Microsoft is a resounding success and will build on it to make even more WP phones

or

b) Elop announces Nokia is making too much money on WP phones so now it will spend it on making a "FOSS disruption" phone.

Nokia's bad decision of the decade was NOT executing a full scale international patent war assault on the Cupertino Crew upon the release of the original iPhone in 2007. Patent war Armageddon should have come and gone taking with it Stevie Job's beloved iPhone and allowing for the release of the scientists that he still probably has locked in his basement.

shmerl 2012-01-05 06:05
Re: Qt headed to WP ?
 
You prefer Nokia to become another patent troll? I wouldn't buy a thing from them in that case. Doing it in defense isn't the same though.


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