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Nokia Windows Phone will not support Qt, Symbian developers left high and dry
Following news of the Nokia-Microsoft strategic partnership, Nokia has sent a letter to its beleaguered developers to say that Qt will continue to be the development framework for its Symbian phones -- but as far as Nokia Windows Phone 7 devices go, Qt will not be supported. Silverlight and the XNA framework will be the only options for Nokia WP7 developers.In the letter, Nokia says that it plans to sell 150 million more Symbian phones -- but presumably, after that, the transition to Windows Phone will be complete and Symbian will die a quiet and ignoble death. MeeGo, the open-source smartphone OS, will still make an appearance later this year -- and yes, it will run Qt apps.
While this doesn't come as a surprise -- porting Qt to WP7 would be a massive and time consuming undertaking -- we have to wonder what this will do to the already-runty Windows Phone 7 app ecosystem. Will Symbian Qt app developers embrace the new platform and learn an entirely new set of programming skills? Or will they jump ship to a stable platform that's proven to work, like iOS or Android?
With Windows Phone 7's complete dearth of features, will Nokia developers even want to write apps for the new Nokia-Microsoft platform?
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Subscribe to commentsblert13Feb 11th 2011 6:52AM
"will Nokia developers even want to write apps for the new Nokia-Microsoft platform? "
I for one wont!
RyzvonusefFeb 11th 2011 7:00AM
Well Seb, MS and Nokia screwed us all, let's leave it at that.
RyzvonusefFeb 11th 2011 7:03AM
@Ryzvonusef
Also, btw, the comment portion of the DLS often doesn't load on Chrome, you might want to look into that.
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 11th 2011 7:04AM
@Ryzvonusef When clicking through from the RSS feed, right?
It's a known issue. But we have no ETA for the fix :(
MattFeb 11th 2011 10:00AM
Well fuck.
I wonder how Qt on Android is coming along.
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 11th 2011 10:08AM
@Matt I think it's meant to be coming along nicely:
http://code.google.com/p/android-lighthouse/
mojosamFeb 11th 2011 12:16PM
Actually, Qt already runs on Windows Mobile / Windows CE, which is the same operating system that WP7 is based on.
http://qt.nokia.com/products/platform/qt-for-windows-ce/
How big an effort could it be?
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 11th 2011 12:17PM
@mojosam The main problem is that WP7 doesn't seem to support native code (though Samsung apparently had an app approved that ran natively, without Silverlight/XNA).
It does seem odd that Qt is being dropped. I hope it gets ported.
SilverWaveFeb 11th 2011 12:53PM
Heh RIP Nokia you sure picked the wrong guy...
You have to wonder if the ex ms guy will have a seat waiting for him back at ms once he has finished gutting Nokia.
DepicusFeb 11th 2011 2:22PM
@SilverWave sad but true Nokia is being raped.
mkoFeb 12th 2011 11:17AM
It seems Nokia surrendered to Microsoft unconditionally.
GlennFeb 13th 2011 1:31AM
This might shed light on the situation
http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/12/nokia-new-strategic-direction-what-is-the-future-for-qt/
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 13th 2011 6:26AM
@Glenn Good link, thanks :)
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