Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 4th Feb 2004 08:56 UTC
On Monday, OSNews had the pleasure of talking face to face with Trolltech's CEO and founder, Haavard Nord. Mr Nord discussed with us the new features found in Qt 3.3 (download, changes, announcement), Qtopia and the arising market of Linux in mobile phones as well as in the business computer market. Update: ITManagersJournal hosts a Trolltech article as well.
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he already sees a trend of phone OEMs getting away from Java because either the VMs are just not fast enough, interoperability issues with different J2ME versions, UI problems, etc.
Last year I did a bit research to determine how much work it would be to create and support a small client app (to enter some data) running on commodity cell phone.
The options were Java VMs of different J2ME versions and the symbian platform.
At least the older J2ME standard (MIDP 1 or such) had less features to offer than C++ apps running on the symbian OS.
It was also not possible for me to determine, what kind of platform the cell phone vendors would be offering in the futures.
I was able to look at the present bunch of phnes, with
some phone having only a Java VM, some (mostly business phones) also featured symbian support, all I saw seemed to feature the older J2ME standard.
All in all they rather targeted the market of gaming, than providing some development platform for serious apps.
I could not make out a roadmap, so I could not guarantee the product would be able to run in say 2 years from now.
In the end the project did not get realized.
So what he says is not too surprising to me.
However I don't know how the situation is at present.