Ivan006 said:Now with Blackberry torch and Nokia N8 smartphones on the market, is there a possibility that either of these phones will be able to run Pleco or are there any plans to make an app for these phones?
mnf said:Hoping this information might cause you to reconsider - as I understand the latest stand from Nokia, developing via Qt is now cross-platform - new Symbian applications can now be utilized in MeeGo. Apparently very easy and nothing really to gain by waiting.
mikelove said:mnf said:Hoping this information might cause you to reconsider - as I understand the latest stand from Nokia, developing via Qt is now cross-platform - new Symbian applications can now be utilized in MeeGo. Apparently very easy and nothing really to gain by waiting.
there really is very little evidence that Nokia or anyone else is still committed to Symbian at this point.
Ivan006 said:I don't know how you can say that there is very little evidence that people are not committed to Symbian. I'm not sure how the sales of the N8 are doing, but the 1st time I saw this phone was on a Chinese website. It's also a world phone, so don't you think anyone who buys this smartphone, (especially those who are also learning Chinese) would certainly use your program (Pleco). Mnf is right, there is no point waiting. In the time that is spent waiting, you could be making a new pleco version for Symbian, right (or at least try it out)?
Nokia: MeeGo will not displace Symbian as enterprise OS
By David Meyer, ZDNet UK, 1 December, 2010 15:49
mnf said:Hi Mike, I respect your outlook and position and don't know all that is involved, but I'll continue to try and keep you in the Nokia/Symbian loop. I have philosophical issues with the iOS phenomenon too but that's not relevant here...
mnf said:Nokia: MeeGo will not displace Symbian as enterprise OS
Do your philosophical issues extend to Android too, or is that more a matter of aesthetic preferences?
mnf said:I have nothing against Android, in principle. iOS disturbs me as a dictatorial walled garden. This would be a marginal issue if there weren't a steamroller effect spreading like a flash fire, consuming esoteric flora and fauna in its path.
mnf said:Snowballing market forces, with iOS leading the charge, are stamping out OS variety and choice. I, too, don't believe in the Enterprise/Consumer dichotomy, but I do think that Symbian/MeeGo, though currently less convenient than iOS or Android, has a large user base and is unique in its green characteristics and customization capabilities, and as such, deserves to live, not least, as a foil to keep iOS and Android on their toes.
Fair enough - I'd much rather have MeeGo as the default open Linux-based mobile OS than Android, I've said how much I hate Java in these forums at least a few hundred times now... but business-wise it's very difficult to make a case for either Nokia platform yet.