On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Sorvig Morten <morten.sor...@digia.com> wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2014, at 21:21, deDietrich Gabriel <gabriel.dedietr...@digia.com> > wrote: >> The truth is, market share doesn’t mean anything. Point in case: According >> to the link above, OS X is less than 8% of the total market share. Should we >> then drop the Mac port completely? > > Good question! Possible arguments for not discontinuing the Mac port: > > - The holistic view. The single platform is not that important, but as a part > of a comprehensive platform support package it becomes valuable. > - The 8% OS X users represent a group we want to target. > - We can use the Mac port to make Qt better. Case in point the high-dpi > support developed for OS X can be used on Wayland as well. - A good part of the OS X port is useful for the iOS port, and on the smartphone market the numbers are pretty different -- Eike Ziller, Senior Software Engineer - Digia, Qt Digia Germany GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Tuula Haataja Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
