ICS is interested in helping out, Digia is still in the game. Apart from that, I think nothing new has surfaced over the past few weeks. Nokia itself remains silent about its plans.

sierdzio wrote:

Nokia itself remains silent about it plans.

Of course they do. We were still owed an explanation about the last disaster, and that never came either. Not officially, anyway. So don’t count on any statement this time either. You’ll just notice if you see a press release that Qt was sold off, or that devs have been layed off, or that there simply continue to be loads of commits that keep on streaming in from the Nokia, and that nothing has really happened. Everything else is just rumours.

Sad but true… just when Qt needs a clear path the most, even if it were an uneasy one, FUD is spreading instead.

Nokia is effectively under the umbrella of MS, needless to say there is no place for a competing cross-platform SDK framework under that umbrella. I really hope Nokia will let go and sell Qt to some company whose corporate politics won’t be as limiting.

If Nokia didn’t suffer all those loses in term of money and market share, its relationship with MS could have been better, but now, as the “holly savoir” MS is in position to call the shots.

One simply has to give credit where it is due. Nokia failed to KEEP UP and lost so much, they could have easily spent 10% of what they LOST and dictate and set standards, both iOS and Android devices have plenty of weaknesses and it doesn’t really take all that much to make a product line to out-compete them, provided you have the resources which Nokia did. Alas… the world is being ran by fools, that much should be obvious to everyone at this point…

Hopes that we will have some news soon … I think we are a lot of company with all development made with Qt … I suppose that Nokia Qt dev can’t communicate, but can Qt Governance ask nokia what they think about Qt Future ?

A quick refresh on how mobile market is going:

Interesting graphic.

I think that the project can be maintained by us. At least, I hope so…

It seems the Qt ports for Android and ios are also near dead. I don’t understand why Nokia don’t sell it off if they are not interested in taking it forward.

Judging from recent activity on Gitorious, Necessitas is back on-line. The problem is, of course, the lack of backing. Bogdan is doing fantastic job, but he can’t do it all (almost) alone. Of course, the situation would improve manifold if a company backed the port.

That was the problem from the begining. It is a one man battle. I don’t know why people are not interested in contributing to it, while there is lot of interest in things like phonegap, lot of companies sponsoring it. I guess this will come once Qt is fully free from Nokia.

Jayakrishnan.M wrote:

It seems the Qt ports for Android and ios are also near dead. I don’t understand why Nokia don’t sell it off if they are not interested in taking it forward.

Who says they are not (trying to)?

May be they are. Some day we may hear some company has acquired it. Sooner the better.

Haven’t looked at git, but on sourceforge the last update is dated 18 February, which is exactly 5 months ago.

the situation would improve manifold if a company backed the port

I have a feeling if Trolltech remained independent Android would be officially supported today.

utcenter wrote:

Haven’t looked at git, but on sourceforge the last update is dated 18 February, which is exactly 5 months ago.

the situation would improve manifold if a company backed the port

I have a feeling if Trolltech remained independent Android would be officially supported today.

exactly. Had trolltech remained independant there would have been official support for both ios and android

Or TT would have been bust. Or…

It’s little use looking back towards the past. Let us concentrate on the future. Where can we take Qt from where we are now?