Thread: Elops oh s**t moment for Meego
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geohsia is offline geohsia
2011-06-08 , 06:13
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#202
Originally Posted by nwerneck View Post
Hey maybe apt... Debian's repos. There is a "store", a very old and successful one that has a few Qt apps, will that do it for you?
Sure. My point was that while Nokia is still working on technologies everyone else are developing ecosystems.

If you talk about the Apple or Android ecosystems I think people understand what you're talking about. For Nokia there's just a bunch of technologies and they haven't really put it all together. That was my point, not that there needs to be a Qt store per se.

Qt is working full steam on Symbian^3, Maemo 5 and even older Symbian phones. (not sure what version, but it includes 5800 and others). I don't know how many developers have already released Qt apps, but it's all there, ready to work.
My N900 doesn't have nearly the apps that are on Symbian S^3.

So, for all effects in this debate, Qt is actually "new".
Which was my point

The often mentioned tradition and adoption is more of a rhetoric thing. Qt development for mass mobile apps only really exists and is being tested right now, because of Nokia's relatively recent push.



...Is good technology waiting to be used.
I don't disagree, but its important to know where to pick your battles.

MeeGo was incredibly behind (according to the article). Since Qt is a core component, so was Qt. Would MeeGo have been better off with just GTK (like Maemo)? One can only assume that it would have released faster. The cause of the delay of MeeGo devices can't be blamed on Qt but it certainly doesn't help.

So KISS my Qt!!! Qt is beautiful, Qt is life, Qt is love! Simple and powerful.
Sorry not my thing.

Multi-platform development is always complicated, that is the truth. If there were no problems, it would be the same platform. Qt does offer a great means to archieve that, but it's not just about that. And also, have in mind that we are talking multi-platform across mobile/desktop etc. But maybe it could turn out Qt only really grows for handelds, who knows! :P
I think chasing after the mult-platform holy grail is an effort fraught with frustration.

You are talking like Nokia was forcing you to always take care of numerous different platforms, that doens't make any sense.
Again, the original article was about Nokia's inability to execute on their future platform (MeeGo). With the way they spread themselves out I am not surprised.