Qt, what next?
May 31st, 2011
My experiment with Mono for Android was going quite well when Attachmate decided to fire the entire development team. That didn’t scare me, I had a feeling that they would pop up again. What made me pause was the thought of what Nokia might do.
I realize that this is old news. At the time it happened I hadn’t been giving Qt much thought.
Nokia purchased Trolltech (the makers of Qt) a while ago. The vision was to use Qt to provide an enterprise wide SDK for all the Nokia mobile OS’s. This was to include the old Symbian, as well as MeeGo.
The Nokia/Microsoft press release read: “Microsoft development tools will be used to create applications to run on Nokia Windows Phones, allowing developers to easily leverage the ecosystem’s global reach. “
IMHO, there is absolutely no business reason for Nokia to hang on to Trolltech. Qt makes it entirely too easy to create multi-platform applications for Windows, Mac, Linux and Mobile Platforms; but not Windows Phone 7.
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