Develop app on 950 then what?
 

This isn't a rant just an honest question. I'm honestly thrilled that the hardworking, awesome developers here will get an opportunity to use the N950. In my opinion Nokia should let them keep the dev kits. The talent at this site probably sold thousands of N900, not to mention they kept it in the public eye (aka as Engadget) when Nokia was... ahem burning..So here's my question again.

We all know what Elop said about the future of the N9.

So after someone develops an app on the N950 then what will its future be? There is a limited distribution of N9s, Nokia is backing away from Meego. How many meego phones will be produced? Has all the Meego phones that will ever be made been made?

Just trying to understand the strategy with these new phones...

Re: Develop app on 950 then what?
 

Lol, you're spot on. I don't understand the point of the N950 either. Maybe they want a few apps so that owners of the n9 will not be too pissed, and will stay with nokia (and wp7) for the next one.

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The point is to promote Qt... it has been mentioned by several sources that this is part of their "next billion" strategy

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Come out of dreamworld and back to reality!!!

We all know there are thousands of QT apps for Symbian. Does even one exist on N900????

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The answer about strategy is simple - there is no strategy at all ;) At least until we start considering, that bouncing from wall to wall (for few years now) is a strategy.

Anyway, it's still good that they decided to "lend" N950 to developers - at least 250 people will have interesting (as a curiosity) device. They could just send them to "utilization" - honestly, would You be surprised?

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Actually there are many... :D

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Are you serious? The Enhanced Lockscreen you have installed on your device is a Qt Application, CuteTube-QML is a Qt application.

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I think he means a QT application ported from symbian. And indeed there may be one but sure they aren't many.

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whats so hard to understand? I dont get it?

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The problem I see is that Nokia, or rather, Elop is limiting N9 manucturing to just under a 100k units. Even if there is demand there will not be available phones, so it will never be a success.

This is to prevent it making too much success and making WP7 a bad choice, and it makes n950 obsolete, because there won't be any buyers for apps.

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The 92000 number supposedly refers to the numbers of N950s, not the number of N9s. But it's probably not a true number anyway.

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Although the N950 is my ideal device, but I don't see how releasing it to developers only helps in any way.

I presume it is so developers start making apps for the N9, if this is the case then why not just give them an N9. I don't see how a developer would benefit from testing apps on a device with hardware differences to their target audience.

Re: Develop app on 950 then what?
 

Smart people in this thread! Watch out...

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C'mon, it's really not that difficult. The company leaders are now officially bound to wp7. They wouldn't be able to promote MeeGo fully even if they wanted. That's why you don't hear much positive about MeeGo from them The team leaders of the MeeGo and qt devisions are very positive of their work. That's why they of course promote them. And the n950? I am pretty sure there either a technical/licensing/regulatory issue that prevents building and selling them. So "lending" units already produced is the only option besides destroying them.

Hey, tt's a huge company struggling. You really can't expect them to have one single clear roadmap ... just be happy with the n9 and n950 as long as they last ...

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Maybe giving them the one with the hwkb will make them more productive. Exactly why I want one!

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Nokia just wants to spend as little as possible to fulfill their obligations to Intel. The n950 was a device set to be distributed in 2010, that they decided to nix for various reasons, but had already produced units. Since hardware wise they are close enough for development of N9 apps, why waste money giving N9 to developers, when you have existing hardware that is unusable to sell to consumers, but fine for developers of a platform you don't want to spend much money on.

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Actually, so disappointing. Who is gonna spend time on the N9?

If there isn't any news when the N9 is in the streets, about some kind of future, something like WP will be our main brand, but Nx will be our top of the top, with one device per year, without Meego (because the delays have been too big) but with our Maemo, and blah blah blah

Without something like that, well, actually for the first time I have to say that I'll be with my n900 as long as I can, or perhaps apple gives a really stunning new iphone. Android is just too chaotic for me.

But buying the N9? Why?? I like a lot the phone, but I can't buy it! Not after Elop's words! I mean, it is not an option ... so sad ...

Re: Develop app on 950 then what?
 

Er, I would have assumed by posting on the TMO website, in an N9XX thread, you would be well versed in the platform. Of course there are QT apps on the N900. Lots of them. QT I guess became popular in Linux very early on because of the license - it was available on Windows as well but it wasn't really free. What makes you think a linux based phone would be lacking in this area? Qt has been around for about 18 years now. It's not new.

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Because the N9 isn't yet available, but the N950 is, and apart from the keyboard they are pretty much identical hardware.

Why is this so hard to understand?

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sorry guys... for not wording it completely.

i meant there are many amazing apps written in QT for symbian. even after all this "cross platform" crap that we hear, i would doubt even 1% of them are ported to maemo.

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That's a question that should aimed at the developers of those Symbian applications. Not all Qt applications are open source. Many of the Symbian Qt applications will be developed under the commercial license. There isn't much of an incentive for the developers to target a platform that is a commercial deadzone. Maemo5 has a relatively small user base, most of whom are used to getting 'free stuff'.

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just hope theydont create anything that requires a ctrl+shift type of function! :p

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This still does not explain why the N950 is developer only. Nokia obviously had to plan the creation of the N950 but why not for general sale??