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Nokia urges developers to keep the faith in Qt for Symbian and MeeGo
Stuart Corner
Sunday, 13 February 2011 18:24
If Nokia is to realise its stated goal of selling another 150 million Symbian based smartphones, and making a success of its MeeGo platform it will need the developer community to remain loyal to the Qt developer platform in the wake of its betting its future on Windows Mobile 7.
"The retention of Nokia's 200 million Symbian-users is vital and Nokia has targeted sales of 150 million more Symbian-devices in years to come," Kihlberg said. "To achieve that Nokia needs to continue the modernisation of Symbian in Qt - to keep existing consumers engaged and to attract new customers, either upgrading from existing Symbian devices to Qt enabled devices or entirely new to Nokia."
Nokia announced last October that it was standardising on Qt as the development framework for Symbian, saying it would develop its own future applications using Qt. In an interview with ExchangeDaily last November Kenny Mathers, Nokia's head of developer relations & marketing for Asia Pacific, said that Qt would shield developers from underlying upgrades in Symbian and enable them to produce applications with far fewer lines of code than developing in Symbian.
(He also said: "[New CEO Stephen] Elop's mandate was not to change our strategy, but to accelerate our transformation, and the implementation of that strategy. The first stage of that is [our standardisation] on Qt."!)
Qt, however, has an important role in Nokia's long term future. Nokia made it clear in its February 11 announcement that its new focus on Windows 7 is designed to enable it to face the immediate threat of destruction from the power of Apple and Android in the smartphone and tablet market, but that it is also looking beyond these market-changing forces.
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