[Interest] Indie Mobil Program terminated?

Thu Jul 2 17:43:31 CEST 2015

Hi,

I'm quite shocked. I have used Qt open source for years. 

When I started my own company I decided that I needed to buy Qt license because I would need in app purchase mechanism for my apps. By that time, one year ago, I have subscribed a license for 125 euros. I have payed for that license until a couple of months ago when I downgraded to mobile indie license for 25 euros. This one seemed to me a really awesome option for my company. I was running out of money and cutting on the fixed expenses was one of the first moves.

For companies like mine, a low license value is essential to keep it running. If I had to decide today for a license of 350 euros, it wouldn't be possible for me to choose Qt... :(

Qt is an awesome technology and allows small developers like me to do awesome things with low resources. If a small developer like me has a huge amount of success in the future, Qt will gain with that as I will keep investing in it.

Sincerely, I strongly believe that you should bet more on evangelization and on a strong marketing strategy to push more developers to use this technology. A low license fee is essential as selling point. 

The fact that the license model changed so many times in so abrupt ways in just a single year shows a bit of incoherence regarding the licensing model and can be quite disappoint for those who are investing in this technology to base their products.

This is just my opinion.

I think I have to clearly state this: Qt Rocks!

Best,

--
Nuno Santos

No dia 02/07/2015, às 16:22, Nate Rogers <bob119er at yahoo.com> escreveu:

> I don't think this is a substitute for what you guys are talking about but it does seem to have a lot of the features that the indie mobile version from Qt had...
> 
> http://v-play.net/
> 
> Looks like it's $49 a month for an indie license
> 
> Nate
> 
> 
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> On Thursday, July 2, 2015 11:14 AM, Igor Mironchik <igor.mironchik at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 02.07.2015 17:21, Daniel França wrote:
>> >> This news sounds like a good week for Xamarin
>> Indeed
> 
> Stop guys, as I understood Qt will continue development of support Android and iOS platforms. So this is only question of license. So you can develop new mobile application under commercial license...
> 
> Am I right? Or it's really good week for Xamarin? Will Qt continue support of Android and iOS?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
>> 
>> Em qui, 2 de jul de 2015 às 16:13, Edward Sutton <edward.sutton at subsite.com> escreveu:
>> This news sounds like a good week for Xamarin.
>> 
>> -Ed
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 2, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Ben Lau <xbenlau at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 2 July 2015 at 21:45, Turunen Tuukka <tuukka.turunen at theqtcompany.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: md at rpzdesign.com [mailto:md at rpzdesign.com]
>>> > Sent: 2. heinäkuuta 2015 16:26
>>> > To: Turunen Tuukka
>>> > Cc: interest at qt-project.org
>>> > Subject: Re: [Interest] Indie Mobil Program terminated?
>>> >
>>> > Tuukka:
>>> >
>>> > I did not see that announced anywhere.
>>> >
>>> > Qt should have announced the ending of a program publicly and visibly and
>>> > IN ADVANCE to allow people to decide whether they liked the old or the new.
>>> >
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think that is the problem of chicken and egg. Qt is not yet a famous / popular solution                           for iOS/Android development and therefore people don't interest for the indie license. But without the indie Qt, it is even more difficult to get people's attention to use Qt for cross-platform solution for mobile. 
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