Nokia continues to hire Qt developers

http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/18/buckets-of-cold-water/

by guruz • 15 years ago

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Nokia is still rolling out Qt and they estimate by end of year it will be market of .5 billion phones. So Ovi + Qt is a very real market for at least the next few years. Meanwhile Microsoft transition hasn't even begun.

shareme• 15 years ago

Hint: current Android numbers are 50 Million per month and that is 0.600 billion for 2001..

That market is getting hammered and does not even have a toe-hold yet..

jsnell• 15 years ago

Where are you getting the 50M/month number from? The latest number reported by Google (Eric Schmidt at a MWC keynote this week) was 350k a day, which would be about 10 million a month.

(Though you are right in that given the kind of growth the smartphone market is going through, installed base is quickly going to be irrelevant and what matters is new sales).

pasiaj• 15 years ago

It is pretty much chaos within Nokia at the moment. Nobody knows exactly what the Microsoft deal is bringing in. The cities of Oulu and Tampere in Finland are standing still, waiting (probably for months, still) who is going to get fired and who will be retrained from Symbian/QT into Windows devs.

I would guess middle management has to continue implementing old plans until they get some more instructions on Elop's new stretegy.

stevenwei2• 15 years ago

It's too bad that the future of Qt is so uncertain right now, Qt Quick/QML was actually shaping up to be a decent toolset.

It is still quite immature right now: they really need to put together a standardized UI component set ala UIKit, and the documentation is sorely lacking, but there is a lot of potential in QML that I would hate to see wasted.

guruz• 15 years ago

Have you checked out qt-components? http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/09/10/building-the-future-rein...

stevenwei2• 15 years ago

Yes, it's a good start but needs a lot more work, particularly with regards to widgets designed for touchscreen navigation.

joezydeco• 15 years ago

Does this mean all those idle devs will have time to address the Qt/embedded bugs that have been open for 2+ years?

I'm not holding my breath.

Nokia continues to hire Qt developers

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