Hi, I think this is a self goal. Nicola > Il giorno 03/lug/2015, alle ore 14:56, Kate Alhola <kate.alh...@gmail.com> ha > scritto: > > 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
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