The mobile market The mobile market and Qtand Qt

Espen RiskedalEspen RiskedalAugust 2010August 2010

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«Apps! I did it again»«Apps! I did it again»David Pogue / The New York TimesDavid Pogue / The New York Times

Mobile platformsAndroid / Google

iPhone / Apple

Blackberry / RIM

Symbian and MeeGo / Nokia

Windows Phone / Microsoft

Devices sold per dayNumbers for Q2/Q3 2010 from Informationweek.com - http://bit.ly/9Gb76J

iPhone: 93000Android: 200000Symbian: 300000

Market share2nd Quarter 2009Numbers from Canalys and asymco.com http://bit.ly/90mC49

Market share2nd Quarter 2010Numbers from Canalys and asymco.com http://bit.ly/90mC49

Native WRTFlash / Lite / Air

Qt .NET / Silverlight

Java / J2ME

iPhone X X

Android X

Symbian X X X

Windows X

RIM X X

Developer toolspushed by manufacturer

Native WRTFlash / Lite / Air

Qt .NET / Silverlight

Java / J2ME

iPhone X X

Android X X

Symbian X X X X X X

Windows X X X X X

RIM X X

Developer toolsactually there

Native WRTFlash / Lite / Air

Qt .NET / Silverlight

Java / J2ME

iPhone X X

Android X X X X X

Symbian X X X X X X

Windows X X X X X X

RIM X X

Developer toolsexperimental / research / kinda

Native WRTFlash / Lite / Air

Qt .NET / Silverlight

Java / J2ME

iPhone X X

Android X X X X X

Symbian X X X X X X

Windows X X X X X X

RIM X X X

Developer toolsannounced

App storesGrowth

Average price

70 / 30

Paid content

Indie vs Pro

MonetizationPaid

Free

Adds

Premium

Freemium

«Qt Everywhere»«Qt Everywhere»qt.nokia.comqt.nokia.com

Helps you create applications

Developed since 1994

Official platform of Nokia

«... a big HURRAY to the Qt team at Nokia for bringing Qt to Symbian – it is truly miles ahead of the old S60 C/C++»

http://blog.symbian.org/2010/07/30/building-orange-wednesdays-in-qt/

IDE and library

Extensive

Cross platform

Supported platformsWindows Mac

Linux Unix

Symbian MeeGo

Windows CE embedded Linux

Community platformsAndroid

Haiku

QNX

Development example

Where do we goWhere do we gofrom here?from here?

Nokia near futureN8: An actual flagship phone

MeeGo: Linux based phone

Qt and QML: Ease development

OVI: Will grow

N812 MP Zeiss camera

HD video recording

HDMI 720p output

Dolby Digital sound

Capacitive multi-touch

HW accelerated UI

Qthttp://nokia.com/n8

MeeGoIntel and Nokia

Linux based

Nokia high end

Intel Tablets

Open development

Qt

Intel Moorestown tablet videohttp://youtu.be/QqeeQd-YNL0

Qt Quick / QMLDeclerative UI

C++ or Javascript

Design vs Logic

Qt 4.7

App growth

2009 2015Total 2.69 billions 21.2 billions

Apple 67% 22%Android 14% 26%Symbian 9% 19%RIM 5% 17%Numbers from Ovum.com (http://bit.ly/dAV8VB)

ConclusionConclusion

Comeback with N8 and MeeGo

No cross platform solution yet

Qt best alternative on Nokia

Qt on Android needs to happen

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