Convergence: From Desktop to Web to Mobile

13/11/09

From Desktop to Web to Mobile Thiago Macieira How Qt helps you go everywhere

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Who am I?

• Senior Product Manager at Nokia, Qt

• Degrees in Engineering and an MBA

• Almost 3 years with the company

• Focus on the Core & Infrastructure domains

• Other or past duties:– Developer in the Core Team

– Working mostly with networking, I/O, threads

– Liaison to the KDE community

– Release manager for Qt

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Agenda

• Landscape

• Convergence

• How Qt can help you

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Last year, we talked about...

• Desktop / Embedded convergence

• Focussed on the embedded ports of Qt:– Embedded Linux (previously existing)– Windows CE (recently released in Qt 4.4)

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This year, we’ll talk about...

• Desktop / Embedded / Mobile / Web convergence

• Mobile activities:– Symbian and Maemo 5 ports– Qt Mobility project– Nokia

• Web activities:– QtWebKit improvements– Web Runtime

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Why should I consider this?

• Huge installed base

• Economies of scale

• Blurring definition of devices

• Leveraging the Web

• And because it’s easy with Qt

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PC addressable market

• Market still growing but decelerating– CAGR 2003-2008: 14.5% 2008-2013: 5.2%

• Portable trend– Notebooks and laptops overtook in 2008

Source: StrategyAnalytics

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PC market by Operating System

• Market fairly established:– Windows clearly dominates– Mac OS X rising in popularity– Linux making slow inroads

• Low-cost, public sector, etc.

• Many toolkit options:– Microsoft has several offerings– Apple has only one official offering– Linux has two alternatives (one of them being Qt)

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Mobile addressable market

• Overall market: greater volume, but slower growth:– CAGR 2007-2013: 2.9%

• Smartphone market: similar size, huge growth:– CAGR 2007-2013: 27.2%

Source: Informa, Jan/09

Phone shipments

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

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600

900

1200

999 1037867 818 802 818 823

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211 291 379443 507

11%11%13%13%

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26%26%

32%32%35%35%

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Mobile market by Operating System

• Smartphone market very fragmented:– Symbian will remain the leader for the time being

– Fragmentation will increase before it decreases

• Each OS has its own toolkit

Source: StrategyAnalytics, Jul/09

Smartphone installed base

2006 2009 2012

Symbian62,7% Blackberry

5,8%

Windows Mobile12,2%

Linux (incl. Android)12,1%

Others7,1%

Symbian50,1%

iPhone8,6%

Blackberry13,3%

Windows Mobile13,4%

Linux (incl. Android)12,1%

Others2,5%

Symbian35,7%

iPhone15,3%

Blackberry14,1%

Windows Mobile12,8%

Linux (incl. Android)19,9%

Others2,3%

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The Embedded market

• Varied processors and OS, but changing

• Consolidating:– Processors: ARM and MIPS– OS: Linux (mid and high-end)

• Hardware seriously underpowered:– Little or no graphics acceleration– Memory limitations

Source: Qt Development Frameworks internal analysis

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Agenda

• Landscape

• Convergence

• How Qt can help you

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What is convergence?

• “Technological convergence is the tendency for

different technological systems to evolve towards

performing similar tasks.”– Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_convergence

• The lines of separation blur:– Different devices do the same jobs

– Consumers start expecting the same behaviour

• Example:– Web browsing

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Devices themselves are converging

• CPU, GPU and battery life are very close:– Laptops are becoming lighter– Netbooks are getting better battery life

• Example: Nokia 3G Booklet has 12 hours

– Mobile devices are getting more powerful:• Example: Nokia N900 mobile computer

• Services are the differentiation

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Device convergence: 3-device illustration

Smartphone Mobile Computer

Nokia N900

ARM 400 MHz processor 256 MB of RAM

32 GB of storage

Netbook Asus eeePC

Atom 1.6 GHz processor 1 GB of RAM

80 GB of storage

Laptop Dell XPS

Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz processor 2 GB of RAM

160 GB of storage

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The Web is also forcing convergence

• Zero install, zero deployment

• Emerging Web technologies:– HTML 5 / CSS 3– Web widgets– Web tools

• Easy access to developers– Large pool of talent to tap onto

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Note of warning: web isn’t so simple

• Many standards, poor support:– HTML 4, HTML 5, XHTML 1.x, CSS 2, CSS 3, ECMAScript

– Browser engines must cope with broken source code

– Web developers must cope with engine limitations

• Desktop landscape:– Internet Explorer 6 still over 60%

– IT corporations block upgrades

• WebKit dominates mobile:– Used by Nokia, Apple, Google, Palm, Research in Motion¹

– Existing 3rd-party browsers for Windows Mobile

1) Blackberry doesn’t use WebKit yet, but it’s expected to do so soon

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Agenda

• Landscape

• Convergence

• How Qt can help you

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Without Qt, you’d use...

• Desktop:– Windows: Microsoft .NET framework– Mac: Apple’s Cocoa framework

• Mobile / Embedded:– Symbian: Symbian C++ API– Windows Mobile: Microsoft .NET embedded

• Web:– HTML 5 / CSS 3 / custom JavaScript extensions– Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight

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Desktop with Qt

• Traditional Qt segment– Strongest API base– Most customers

• Platforms supported:– Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 (and some Server)– Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6:

• 32- and 64-bit, PowerPC and x86

– Linux with X11• Any platform

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Embedded and Mobile with Qt

• Renovated focus for Qt:– API completeness – Qt Mobility project– Performance, memory profiling

• Platforms supported:– Linux with DirectFB, on ARM, MIPS, and x86– Linux with X11, on ARM and x86– Windows CE 5.0, 6.0, Mobile 6.0, 6.5– Symbian 3.1, 3.2, 5.0 (and future versions)

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Using Qt, you have...

• One code base for all platforms – Minor tweaks depending on form factor

• Powerful UI capabilities– Animation Framework, QML– New UI editor (Project “Bauhaus”)– OpenGL, OpenGL ES and OpenVG

• Web integration:– QtWebKit API

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Questions

• Thank you

• Any questions?