Looks at the mobile platforms iOS, Android, Symbian, RIM and Windows and how they currently fare. Explains which development technologies are available for them. Takes a look at the future and speculates how Nokia will do with Symbian and MeeGo. Puts Qt, the development framework, into all of this.
3. «Apps! I did it again»
David Pogue / The New York Times
4. Mobile platforms
Android / Google
iPhone / Apple
Blackberry / RIM
Symbian and MeeGo / Nokia
Windows Phone / Microsoft
5. Devices sold per day
Numbers for Q2/Q3 2010 from Informationweek.com - http://bit.ly/9Gb76J
iPhone: 93000
Android: 200000
Symbian: 300000
6. Market share
nd
2 Quarter 2009
Numbers from Canalys and asymco.com http://bit.ly/90mC49
7. Market share
nd
2 Quarter 2010
Numbers from Canalys and asymco.com http://bit.ly/90mC49
8. Developer tools
pushed by manufacturer
Flash /
.NET / Java /
Native WRT Lite / Qt Silverlight J2ME
Air
iPhone X X
Android X
Symbian X X X
Windows X
RIM X X
9. Developer tools
actually there
Flash /
.NET / Java /
Native WRT Lite / Qt Silverlight J2ME
Air
iPhone X X
Android X X
Symbian X X X X X X
Windows X X X X X
RIM X X
10. Developer tools
experimental / research / kinda
Flash /
.NET / Java /
Native WRT Lite / Qt Silverlight J2ME
Air
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
11. Developer tools
announced
Flash /
.NET / Java /
Native WRT Lite / Qt Silverlight J2ME
Air
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
15. Helps you create applications
Developed since 1994
Official platform of Nokia
16. «... 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/