Hi Tuukka, Thanks for listening from us!
> we are rather surprised that a product that almost no-one has bought is crucially important to so many. I have already purchased an indie license few month ago. I think I could try to explain why we are very concerned with this issue. I think most of the guy replied in this thread not only an user. But also an evangelist (or just wanna-be) of Qt. We would like to recommend / convince people/company to use Qt. Even we know it is not yet a very good solution for mobile yet. But we wish it will be the best solution, so we are willing to be a pioneer. But if the lowest cost to get Qt run on mobile is USD $350/month, it is really difficult to convince others to get started on a not-yet popular solution. We complain becoz we like Qt. And wish it success. On 7 July 2015 at 02:23, 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 >
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