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Qt Blog
blog.qt.nokia.com · Company blog · on HN since 2010
Official Qt blog hosted by Nokia, covering Qt's governance, its sale to Digia, and Qt on devices like Raspberry Pi.
What HN saysHN links it for Nokia's Qt announcements; commenters ask about Digia, discuss licensing revenue, and complain about the Raspberry Pi Qt device program.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Nokia and Digia working together to grow the Qt community4 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 2Qt 5 with Rasberry Pi: a delicious mix with home delivery2 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 3What is the future of Qt?1 people · 82 points · first shared 2011 · 23 comments on HN
- 4Nokia confirms Qt as app platform for "next billion"1 people · 44 points · first shared 2011 · 15 comments on HN
- 5Update on Qt1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 6The next step for Qt open governance1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 7Qt’s future for Nokia: Bringing apps to the next billion1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 8Hack for a cause at (H)Activate London1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9Qt 4.8.2 Released1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 10Qt for PhoneGap, connects HTML5 app to native API's1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 11Meet qt quick1 people · first shared 2010
- 12Nokia cto rich green speaks about qt1 people · first shared 2011
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gingerjoos · 2012-08-09
Seems like Digia was already into Qt bigtime [1] . Can anyone give some context w.r.t Digia?
[1] http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/07/nokia-and-digia-working-together/
sho_hn · 2012-07-18
Unfortunately I'm rather disappointed with regard to the Raspberry Foundation living up to its obligations. They had made a deal with Nokia for a "Qt on Pi" device program that would get 400 units into the hands of Qt developers, and these were supposed to be among the first to go out:
http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/11/24/qt-5-with-rasberry-pi-a-delicious-…
However, they never managed to get the expected page up where one would redeem the coupon code. Eventually an email-based way was put in place, but to this day, nobody in the programme has received their Pi.
Yes, this is a "didn't get free stuff" whine, but still, they promised and never delivered.
bergie · 2011-03-07
There is also a blog post from the Qt side of things: http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/07/nokia-and-digia-working-together/
gregschlom · 2011-03-07
According to this comment [1], Qt has around 4000 licensees. A license is around $3,000, so that's roughly a 12 million dollar business, if we can trust those numbers.
Edit: actually, it's on the Qt press release itself. They state there [2] that:
> The Qt Commercial licensing business is growing and has around 3500 companies
[1] http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/16/nokia-cto-rich-green-speaks-about-…
[2] http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/07/nokia-and-digia-working-together/
somebear · 2010-03-06
I fully agree, but I also think Apple is moving in that direction with Dashcode, although it doesn't really provide the full functionality of Xcode+Interface builder.
I think, the time when HTML5+JS+CSS will become everyday for small apps is the day when there are some robust UI frameworks. We are moving in that direction with the different frameworks, e.g. Cappucino [http://cappuccino.org/].
In the meantime you can take a look at Qt Quick [http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2010/02/15/meet-qt-quick/]. It uses a declarative language, called QML, for defining UI and the app logic can be either JS or hooked into Qt objects written in C++. I've only played with it a couple of days, and already I am sold on the possibilities for rich animated fast UIs.