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Originally Posted by geohsia View Post
You disagree, that's fine. My point still remains if Qt is that mature and works as advertised why doesn't the N900 have the same number of wonderful Qt apps as the N8 and etc.

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Why don't you answer my question. Why isn't the N900 flooded with numerous quality Qt apps if it is as good and easy to use as it claims and they already exist for Symbian?
Disagreeing is okay, I am sure we'll still disagree after I clear up your errors.

Why haven't the Qt synergy given the N900 as many Qt applications as the N8 had?

1) Because there is no Qt synergy effect between an OS based on Qt and an OS not based on Qt. Maemo 5 is GTK based.

2) Because there's no Qt synergy effect when the Qt synergy strategy doesn't exist yet. It wasn't until MeeGo was announced, that they had a Qt synergy strategy. The first device that would have a real Qt strategy effect is the N9, N950, or whatever it'll be called.

3) Even with a full blown, successful Qt synergy effect, a platform with a few hundred thousand users will never get as many Qt applications as the mother platform with tens or hundreds of millions of users. That would require every single Qt application made for the bigger platform to be ported.

4) Qt was being backported to the N900 because they needed a development platform compatible with MeeGo. Being backported meant there is problems with distribution, resource allocation, etc. Not to mention the delay. So the only Qt synergy effect possible were only possible for a handful months, to a single non-Symbian device, before Nokia announced they gave up on Qt as the common building brick. That means the window was very limited, and the target audience very small.

Originally Posted by geohsia View Post
At some point a developer could develop for Symbian, Qt and then Maemo (now MeeGo). A waste of time for developers and for Nokia, having to spread their time to essentially support 3 dev environments.

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It's the other way around. The king is naked and you choose not to see it.
Please.

You do realize that Microsoft support a far bigger number of environments/languages on Windows Phone 7 - a OS that is marginal compared to Symbian?

Really. You cover up your lack of knowledge and understanding with naked king anecdotes?
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