[Interest] Indie Mobil Program terminated?

[Shantanu Tushar]

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.franca at 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.turunen at 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: md at rpzdesign.com <md at rpzdesign.com>
>> Lähetetty: 6. heinäkuuta 2015 16:39
>> Vastaanottaja: interest at 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
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Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
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