Comments on: Nokia does Trolltech: preparing the ground for Ovi http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/ Distilling market noise into market sense. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:40:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Embedded Components and Tools Blog Center » WordPress Math Publisher Plugin Home Page http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-51088 Embedded Components and Tools Blog Center » WordPress Math Publisher Plugin Home Page Sat, 24 May 2008 00:57:20 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-51088 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Nokia does Trolltech: preparing the ground for Ovi Embedded Star [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[…] Nokia does Trolltech: preparing the ground for Ovi Embedded Star […]

]]> By: VisionMobile Forum :: Learnings from the Mobile World Congress: 10 predictions for MWC 2009 (part 1) http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-28776 VisionMobile Forum :: Learnings from the Mobile World Congress: 10 predictions for MWC 2009 (part 1) Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:44:41 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-28776 [...] Trolltech for its Qt application execution platform, and specifically for two reasons (see our detailed analysis of the acquisition): a) to use Qt as a service substrate, an on-device platform which wraps each [...] […] Trolltech for its Qt application execution platform, and specifically for two reasons (see our detailed analysis of the acquisition): a) to use Qt as a service substrate, an on-device platform which wraps each […]

]]> By: Android » Nokia does Trolltech: preparing the ground for Ovi http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-28274 Android » Nokia does Trolltech: preparing the ground for Ovi Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:42:08 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-28274 [...] Andreas Constantinou wrote an interesting post today on Nokia does Trolltech: preparing the ground for OviHere’s a quick excerptFrom a 10000ft view, Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech is about preparing the ground for Ovi; allowing Nokia to create a consistent service access platform (much like Google's Android) that will make it fast/easier/more intuitive to … [...] […] Andreas Constantinou wrote an interesting post today on Nokia does Trolltech: preparing the ground for OviHere’s a quick excerptFrom a 10000ft view, Nokia’s acquisition of Trolltech is about preparing the ground for Ovi; allowing Nokia to create a consistent service access platform (much like Google’s Android) that will make it fast/easier/more intuitive to … […]

]]> By: Andreas Constantinou http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-27688 Andreas Constantinou Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:51:17 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-27688 Jason - interesting to hear this confirmed from yet another source. In Trolltech's filings it appears that Motorola licensed an additional 200 developer seats from Trolltech in mid 2006, so it might be that the strategy towards Qt/E was effected sometime in between, probably with the change in management in mid 2007. Andreas Jason - interesting to hear this confirmed from yet another source. In Trolltech’s filings it appears that Motorola licensed an additional 200 developer seats from Trolltech in mid 2006, so it might be that the strategy towards Qt/E was effected sometime in between, probably with the change in management in mid 2007.

Andreas

]]> By: Jason Delport http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-27661 Jason Delport Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:06:07 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-27661 I also heard news about Motorola's move away from Qt but at the Motodev Summit in London. The Motorola Linux architect said that the next gen of Motomagx Linux devices would definitely use a different UI layer. I also heard news about Motorola’s move away from Qt but at the Motodev Summit in London. The Motorola Linux architect said that the next gen of Motomagx Linux devices would definitely use a different UI layer.

]]> By: MartinJSmith: Two interesting announcements http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-27557 MartinJSmith: Two interesting announcements Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:13:18 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-27557 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Update ** - of the reasons regarding why Nokia would buy Trolltech, VisionMobile has a detailed case saying why it's all linked to OviNokia to buy Trolltech QT... QT is Trolltech's GUI libraries / [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[…] Update ** - of the reasons regarding why Nokia would buy Trolltech, VisionMobile has a detailed case saying why it’s all linked to OviNokia to buy Trolltech QT… QT is Trolltech’s GUI libraries / […]

]]> By: mutant's musings: TrollTech http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-27556 mutant's musings: TrollTech Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:07:51 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-27556 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] announced last week they are going to acquire Trolltech for US$154m. Andreas at Vision Mobile did a summary on Trolltech background, which I thought I would share here... the numbers look great, but revenue is disappointing. 5000 [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[…] announced last week they are going to acquire Trolltech for US$154m. Andreas at Vision Mobile did a summary on Trolltech background, which I thought I would share here… the numbers look great, but revenue is disappointing. 5000 […]

]]> By: Andreas Constantinou http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-27547 Andreas Constantinou Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:43:11 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-27547 Morten, Very interesting - I didn't know Motorola had made public their move away from Qt/E. Re: MIDP3, I also think you can build all core apps on top of MIDP3, but I don't know how 'customised' and vertically integrated the MIDP3 stack has to be in order to deeply bind into the OS (as with Android, SavaJe). Re: GTK vs Qtopia, I used to also see this as black & white. But Trolltech has demoed integration of GTK within the Qtopia stack and I think that there is still value in Qtopia for Nokia, primarily as an application execution environment and secondly as a lighter-than-GTK, proprietary (who cares?) UI framework and AEE on top of S40. Stefan, I see Qt as much more than a runtime. It's an application execution environment (rich runtime) + an application framework (i.e. app lifecycle management, event management, etc) and graphics toolkit. I think .Net and Flash Lite lack the application framework capabilities, and I expect AIR (when and if it is brought to mobile) to also have some rudimentary app framework capabilities. Andreas Morten,

Very interesting - I didn’t know Motorola had made public their move away from Qt/E. Re: MIDP3, I also think you can build all core apps on top of MIDP3, but I don’t know how ‘customised’ and vertically integrated the MIDP3 stack has to be in order to deeply bind into the OS (as with Android, SavaJe). Re: GTK vs Qtopia, I used to also see this as black & white. But Trolltech has demoed integration of GTK within the Qtopia stack and I think that there is still value in Qtopia for Nokia, primarily as an application execution environment and secondly as a lighter-than-GTK, proprietary (who cares?) UI framework and AEE on top of S40.

Stefan,

I see Qt as much more than a runtime. It’s an application execution environment (rich runtime) + an application framework (i.e. app lifecycle management, event management, etc) and graphics toolkit. I think .Net and Flash Lite lack the application framework capabilities, and I expect AIR (when and if it is brought to mobile) to also have some rudimentary app framework capabilities.

Andreas

]]> By: Stefan Constantinescu http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-27544 Stefan Constantinescu Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:41:54 +0000 http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/#comment-27544 Would you equate Qt as a runtime similar to Microsoft's .Net/Silverlight and Adobe's Air/Flash/Flex? Would you equate Qt as a runtime similar to Microsoft’s .Net/Silverlight and Adobe’s Air/Flash/Flex?

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