Yep quite a chicken and egg problem - devs won't buy Indie license until Qt gets the "missing features"*, but by the time that happens, digia won't be offering the Indie license anymore -_-
* I'm not a mobile dev, so not sure what these are yet. Can somebody list them out? On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Daniel França <daniel.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> The reason why Indie Mobile product is to be discontinued is simple: > there has been so few licenses sold that it does not even cover for the > cost of online sales > > Hmmm, maybe because Qt was missing some crucial features on mobile so > people were waiting those features be available before buy? > > On Mon 6 Jul 2015 at 20:23 Turunen Tuukka <tuukka.turu...@theqtcompany.com> > wrote: > >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> The reason why Indie Mobile product is to be discontinued is simple: >> there has been so few licenses sold that it does not even cover for the >> cost of online sales, let alone any cost of packaging, testing, >> distributing etc. We do care about indie developers and the community, but >> based on the sold Indie Mobile subscriptions it is very clear that there >> was no demand to this product. >> >> As also stated in the blog post of today, we are rather surprised that a >> product that almost no-one has bought is crucially important to so many. >> For this reason, we decided to have extension until end of August rather >> that promise that the product is available indefinitely. It will be >> interesting to see how many decide to purchase it now that it is again >> available. >> >> We are continuously thinking of ways to improve our offering and >> naturally hope to find products that provide new business. We are also very >> happy that we have an active community and customer base. And we are >> extremely proud that Qt is a great product, used by a huge number of >> developers worldwide. >> >> Yours, >> >> Tuukka >> >> >> >> ________________________________________ >> Lähettäjä: m...@rpzdesign.com <m...@rpzdesign.com> >> Lähetetty: 6. heinäkuuta 2015 16:39 >> Vastaanottaja: interest@qt-project.org >> Kopio: Knoll Lars; Turunen Tuukka >> Aihe: Re: [Interest] Indie Mobil Program terminated? >> >> Dear Lars & Turunen: >> >> Qt has been reading their email, but still appear tone deaf: >> >> > >> http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/07/06/indie-mobile-available-until-aug-31st/ >> >> There are statements in that blog which strain QT credibility. >> >> Transparency is only ONE of several significant problems. >> >> Your feedback loops are apparently broken. >> >> Community Crisis Response and Pricing Policy VIA BLOG is a >> communications disaster. >> >> You have manufactured haters which will not evangelize QT, further >> weakening QT now and in the future. >> >> Failing to have Qt staff directly and completely address many valid >> questions/issues raised in the interest list and blog replies has >> consequences, whether obvious or not. >> >> Stop saying Open Source successfully replaces Indie, until you can >> provide an articulate and concise page why instead of sending >> all potential Indies to their lawyers to figure it out. They will not. >> >> The web site is a confusing MESS. You are LOSING sales because nobody >> can clearly see price VS benefits. >> >> Like Nunos Santos says: QT Rocks. >> >> Just not enough people have the time (and now the money) to bet on QT to >> figure it out. >> >> They need to see other users succeeding, not users bitching. >> >> This has been a terrible week for QT. >> >> Mark >> _______________________________________________ >> Interest mailing list >> Interest@qt-project.org >> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest >> > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > > -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) shantanu.io
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