On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Turunen Tuukka <tuukka.turu...@theqtcompany.com> wrote: > > All the current Indie Mobile customers can continue with it under the same > terms, we are not offering new any more. > > This is due to having overall too little interest (i.e. paying customers) for > that product. > > Yours, > > Tuukka
Even if there is little amount of paying customers, removing Indie Mobile possibility makes impossible individual developer to make Qt commercial application to appstore. Even some ones make a fortune, most apps are in long tail where revenue is much, mush less than Qt Commercial license cost. I don't have exact figures but it may be that 80% apps never make enough money to even pay Qt Commercial license. You can say that Qt Company is not interested because they does not make profit with these long tail developers but issue is that a lot of winning apps start from small. Always some of these long tail apps success. If you cut the long tail away, you also cut away all these apps that crow to success from long tail. Why Apple and Google give their dev tools free ? They don't make money from long tail either but they know that getting successful apps you need to have this long tail also. I understand that supporting Indie mobile developers was not profitable but If there is not any solution that allows statically linked Qt apps to appstore then this is killing the long tail and harming success of all Qt. Kate _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
