I had considered that, but rejected it because Apple designs and manufactures
its own chips. Therefore, they would change their CPU design rather than switch
architectures.
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From: Atlant Schmidt <aschm...@dekaresearch.com>
To: 'Jason H' <scorp...@yahoo.com>; "lucas.betsch...@crypto.ch"
<lucas.betsch...@crypto.ch>; "adam.weinr...@nokia.com"
<adam.weinr...@nokia.com>; "interest@qt-project.org" <interest@qt-project.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 7:25 AM
Subject: RE: [Interest] Qt for Android & iOS
Jason:
> iOS will only ever support ARM…
This is pretty orthogonal to the question on the table,
but I’ll bet this statement is wrong. iOS will support
whichever CPU architecture is seen as giving the
best performance per Watt* and right now, that’s
ARM. But in the future, it may be something
completely different.
Atlant
* While still providing “good enough” absolute performance.
From:interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch....@qt-project.org
[mailto:interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch....@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of
Jason H
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 09:44
To: lucas.betsch...@crypto.ch; adam.weinr...@nokia.com; interest@qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt for Android & iOS
It's rather simple actually. Platform control.
iOS was developed for the phone, then monetized to bring in app revenue for
Apple.
Android was the same way, but its initial purpose was to break carrier control
and get people using google services on the mobile space so that didn't have a
giant hole. Searches from wired computers are on their way out.
iOS will only ever support ARM, but Android's Java VM allows any CPU. It's
actually quite clever.
Meanwhile Meego/Mer/Etc was done with the idea of selling Qt and providing a
base to embedded/mobile markets. Sure there's some monetization for the Ovi App
and music stores when it comes to the phone, but it's much more a "me too"
thing. Qt is leverage to compile anywhere and let the app store sort it out.
None of the other companies has such a casual approach. They were targeting
specific instruction sets - ARM or Java because they did not have Qt at their
disposal.
I just got an N9 yesterday and I am impressed. There's a few rough corners, but
overall I'm more disappointed now that they jumped to WP7. It's fast, and
responsive - faster than my dual core Atrix. If more people had access to it,
it would have crushed the prospect of WP7.
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