Comments on: Mobile World Clusterf#^k http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/02/21/mobile-world-clusterfk/ Media, Tech & Business Models Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:02:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: fajar http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/02/21/mobile-world-clusterfk/#comment-4834 fajar Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:02:15 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=2481#comment-4834 Thank you for the link Thank you for the link

]]> By: Youssef Rahoui http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/02/21/mobile-world-clusterfk/#comment-2216 Youssef Rahoui Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:39:17 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=2481#comment-2216 A good and funny read: thanks! A good and funny read: thanks!

]]> By: Guillaume Gete http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/02/21/mobile-world-clusterfk/#comment-2174 Guillaume Gete Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:13:15 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=2481#comment-2174 So straight-to-the-point, and sooooo right. Always good to read you :-) (BTW, I could not find an e-mail address on this blog for a not-so-private request - a picture of you for a soon-to-be-performed keynote I will give in Paris, would you mind getting in touch with me by e-mail ? Thanks !) So straight-to-the-point, and sooooo right. Always good to read you :-)

(BTW, I could not find an e-mail address on this blog for a not-so-private request – a picture of you for a soon-to-be-performed keynote I will give in Paris, would you mind getting in touch with me by e-mail ? Thanks !)

]]> By: Henrik Hartz http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/02/21/mobile-world-clusterfk/#comment-2167 Henrik Hartz Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:16:14 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=2481#comment-2167 Jean-Louis, thank you for your feedback! I agree there are no publicly available reports that illustrate Qt's success in the industry, but if you can look through the potentially subjective nature of our own articles I invite you to investigate the broad selection of Industry-specific case-studies at http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use Jean-Louis, thank you for your feedback! I agree there are no publicly available reports that illustrate Qt’s success in the industry, but if you can look through the potentially subjective nature of our own articles I invite you to investigate the broad selection of Industry-specific case-studies at http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use

]]> By: Jean-Louis Gassée http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/02/21/mobile-world-clusterfk/#comment-2157 Jean-Louis Gassée Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:01:42 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=2481#comment-2157 Shawn's right: my tone is a bit sarcastic. And the sarcasm applies to yours truly as I mention the Apple-Dec "alliance" in the piece. As for BeOS and Apple, as a Mac and iPhone user, I'm thrilled Steve came back for Apple 2.0, to give a new life to the troubled company. Be went on to go public in 1999, making money for its investors. After the Internet Bubble burst, we sold the technology to Palm. Guess what? The merging of OS and cultures didn't work. When, a little later, I became Chairman of Palm Source, we promptly palmed-off, bad pun, the whole thing to the Japanese Access, making good money for the shareholders. As for Qt, as discussed in an earlier comment, I fail to see the momentum vs. competing mobile platforms. The "write once, run everywhere" theory is well known. What is also well known is it rarely translates into implementtations that are both universal and agile. Shawn’s right: my tone is a bit sarcastic. And the sarcasm applies to yours truly as I mention the Apple-Dec “alliance” in the piece.
As for BeOS and Apple, as a Mac and iPhone user, I’m thrilled Steve came back for Apple 2.0, to give a new life to the troubled company. Be went on to go public in 1999, making money for its investors. After the Internet Bubble burst, we sold the technology to Palm. Guess what? The merging of OS and cultures didn’t work. When, a little later, I became Chairman of Palm Source, we promptly palmed-off, bad pun, the whole thing to the Japanese Access, making good money for the shareholders.
As for Qt, as discussed in an earlier comment, I fail to see the momentum vs. competing mobile platforms. The “write once, run everywhere” theory is well known. What is also well known is it rarely translates into implementtations that are both universal and agile.

]]> By: Jean-Louis Gassée http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/02/21/mobile-world-clusterfk/#comment-2156 Jean-Louis Gassée Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:48:22 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=2481#comment-2156 Henrik Hartz is right: I didn't mention Qt. See: http://qt.nokia.com/products. I'm not sure such broad attempts to cover "everything" can be successful on, I quote Nokia: Embedded Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux/X11, Windows CE/Mobile, Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo. And this on "pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems". There is currently no independent market evidence of Qt gaining traction against its competition. Trying to cover so many bases is rarely a recipe for sharp, agile products. Henrik Hartz is right: I didn’t mention Qt. See: http://qt.nokia.com/products.
I’m not sure such broad attempts to cover “everything” can be successful on, I quote Nokia: Embedded Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux/X11, Windows CE/Mobile, Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo. And this on “pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems”. There is currently no independent market evidence of Qt gaining traction against its competition. Trying to cover so many bases is rarely a recipe for sharp, agile products.

]]> By: Thomas http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/02/21/mobile-world-clusterfk/#comment-2153 Thomas Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:17:15 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=2481#comment-2153 Your point; «convincing people to keep investing in the one without a future, Symbian, while the next platform, MeeGo, is being merged.» misses the uniting component called Qt. As the first commenter mentioned it works across different platforms. In other words; people write once and deploy on many devices and operating systems. Your point;
«convincing people to keep investing in the one without a future, Symbian, while the next platform, MeeGo, is being merged.»
misses the uniting component called Qt. As the first commenter mentioned it works across different platforms.

In other words; people write once and deploy on many devices and operating systems.

]]> By: Shawn http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/02/21/mobile-world-clusterfk/#comment-2150 Shawn Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:18:38 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=2481#comment-2150 Is this really jlg writing this junk or someone using the name? If it is jlg, I find it ironic that you choose to write such sloppy analysis of moblin/maemo when it was your choice not to merge BeOS with apple when there were absolutely no market conditions favoring continued independence that doomed that company and the hard work of so many talented people to obsolescence. Was foregoing an alliance wirth apple to engage in "focus shift" to BeIA really such a good idea? Even a cursory review of nokia's roadmap shows that Qt will be a first-class citizen on both symbian and meego platforms allowing for an ecosystem of code reuse in applications across their entire hardware lines as well as whatever intel and other vendors bring to the marketplace. This includes x86 desktop, arm, atom, moorestown, platforms. Qt+linux userland providing the application api. You may disagree with the technical strategy (qt+boost as a compiled fat java) but to arrogantly dismiss it out of hand based on such flimsy and faulty opinion is just arrogance. Is this really jlg writing this junk or someone using the name?

If it is jlg, I find it ironic that you choose to write such sloppy analysis of moblin/maemo when it was your choice not to merge BeOS with apple when there were absolutely no market conditions favoring continued independence that doomed that company and the hard work of so many talented people to obsolescence. Was foregoing an alliance wirth apple to engage in “focus shift” to BeIA really such a good idea?

Even a cursory review of nokia’s roadmap shows that Qt will be a first-class citizen on both symbian and meego platforms allowing for an ecosystem of code reuse in applications across their entire hardware lines as well as whatever intel and other vendors bring to the marketplace. This includes x86 desktop, arm, atom, moorestown, platforms. Qt+linux userland providing the application api.

You may disagree with the technical strategy (qt+boost as a compiled fat java) but to arrogantly dismiss it out of hand based on such flimsy and faulty opinion is just arrogance.

]]> By: Henrik Hartz http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/02/21/mobile-world-clusterfk/#comment-2149 Henrik Hartz Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:47:28 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=2481#comment-2149 Not sure I agree with your MeeGo assessment, did you investigate the MeeGo (not Meego which gives you the incorrect Wikipedia article) architecture? It's based on Qt, which works across exactly pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems. Not sure I agree with your MeeGo assessment, did you investigate the MeeGo (not Meego which gives you the incorrect Wikipedia article) architecture? It’s based on Qt, which works across exactly pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems.

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