How so have you been backed into a corner? The idea of convergence is that you could develop Qt+QML for the desktop too...
Greetings, Terence On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 7:27 PM Unix One <un...@live.com> wrote: > On 02/26/2017 11:05 AM, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 18:09 +0000, Unix One wrote: > >> As for Ubuntu Touch phones, since 100% of existing phone devices are > >> 32-bit, there are no 64-bit phones even being planned (at least > >> publicly), wiping 32-bit future official support outright alienates > >> the > >> core power users and developers - i.e. pretty much everyone - in a > >> frustrating way. > > > > Both the BQ M10 tablet and Meizu Pro 5 phone are 64-bit hardware. The > > userland is currently only 32-bit there, because arm64 was not > > supported on 15.04, which the current phone/tablet images are based on. > > That would reduce your figure to 60% (if you're only talking official > > retail devices, or 50% if counting both M10 FHD/HD separately). > > > > I'm sorry! I take the 100% number back. But talking about phones > (different use case from tablets entirely) specifically, I wasn't sure > Meizu Pro 5 accounted for 20% of all existing phone devices; I'd thought > that number would be somewhere in a single digit percentage. Are you > counting % against available device models, or % of physical devices > currently in the hands of users? > > Regardless, assuming the Meizu Pro 5 will continue to receive > 64-bit/snap updates (which I haven't officially seen confirmed either), > the rest of the statement - potentially alienating 80% of phone users - > stands. > > On a personal side note, I really enjoy Qt+QML development, but my > choices are - a Meizu Pro 5 degraded coverage (radio frequencies) from > an unreputable online seller in $300-$500 range, or another > refurbished/used mako which won't be updated. It feels like I've been > backed into a corner. > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Groeten, Terence NB: Deze mail is op een telefoon samengesteld en kan daardoor zpelvouten bevatten.
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