gnome, linux mobile stacks, and you

GNOME, Linux mobile stacks, and you!GUADEC, Den Haag, 30 July 2010

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asavory@apache.org

andrew.savory@limofoundation.org

http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/

Hi, I’m Andrew.

I. Why mobile matters

II. What about GNOME?

III. Star-cross’d lovers

GNOME, Linux mobile stacks, and you!A comedy in three acts

Act OneWhy mobile matters

The mission of the LiMo Foundation is to create an open, Linux-based software platform for use by the whole global industry to produce mobile devices through a balanced and transparent contribution process enabling a rich ecosystem of differentiated products, applications, and services from device manufacturers, operators, ISVs and integrators.

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“... empower open source developers ...”

Why mobile?

~ 200m per year

~ 309m in 2009~ 376m in 2010

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37.5

75

112.5

150

Tablets Netbooks Smartphones

Approximate device shipments (millions of units)

0

17,500,000

35,000,000

52,500,000

70,000,000

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Mobile Netbooks

source: ovumBig-screen mobile broadband devices forecast: 2009-14; netbook/notebook with embedded mobile broadband

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2,000,000,000

4,000,000,000

6,000,000,000

8,000,000,000

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Mobile Netbooks Mobile Phones PC (estimated)

source: ovumBig-screen mobile broadband devices forecast: 2009-14Mobile regional and country forecast pack: 2010-15

Act TwoWhat about GNOME?

“Successful platforms allowed developers to reach a huge user base”

“cannot afford to have developers spend weeks before apps can be deployed”

“complete story for developers”

“modern development toolsmonolithic application delivery format

federated GNOME application market”

GNOME’s next place in the industry

Opinionated

Fast

Easy

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx93U10Kkro

Act ThreeA pair of star-cross’d lovers

Convergence

Platforms

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nielsvk/258859545/

Developers

What is the public perception of the platform?

How easy is it to get at the tools?

How easy is it to get up and running?

GTK Qt

Fair comparisons

GTK Qt

Fair comparisons

QtWebkitQtScript

QtNetworkQSql

QFile, QDirQt Resource

Qt APIs

Qt

Fair comparisons

QtWebkitQtScript

QtNetworkQSql

QFile, QDirQt Resource

Qt APIs

GNOME

GUADEC Challenge:Find the SDK

A glooming peace this morning with it brings;The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:For never was a story of more woeThan this of Qt and her GNOME.

Thank you!

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asavory@apache.org

andrew.savory@limofoundation.org

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