Saturday, August 11, 2012
Sell Nokia Qt Software, to Focus on Windows Phone
Helsinki - Nokia sells Qt software business unit to another Finnish company, Digia. The release of Qt software business is part of Nokia's strategy of non-core property.
Open source software development toolkit Qt enables developers to create applications that can run on multiple platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux and many mobile platforms like Symbian and Windows Phone.
An end to software development is also done in order to focus on making the transition Nokia large to standardize its mobile devices on the platform of Microsoft Windows Phone.
Reported by Reuters and quoted us on Friday (8/10/2012), Digia spokesman said the company intends to make Qt to support Android, IOS and Windows 8.
Nokia acquired Qt in 2008 from a company called Trolltech. Qt is targeted to developers to create applications for Symbian and MeeGo, a mobile OS developed by Intel.
Nokia Qt itself was originally relied upon to strengthen the low-end segment. At Nokia Connection event last year, Nokia said the Nokia Qt becomes core to serve diverse applications in the segment he called the next billions users.
"We plan to build a new generation of cross-platform environment. This is a great time to improve people's perceptions of Qt. Focus Qt Digia will bring to the desktop as well as expanded support for mobile operating system," he said.
"Windows Phone part of our strategy (for smartphones) and Qt is another great platform that will be the core in the present application to the next billion users," said Marco Argenti, Senior Vice President for Developer and Marketplace Nokia at the time.
With Qt buried, low-end Nokia mobile phone is claimed to have various features such as smartphones.
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