[Interest] Qt.io confusing website ... where are the pricing table and how to get indie license ?

[Daniel França]

Game: *Find the "Qt in mobile" track of conferences on Qt World Summit 2015*
:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/07/16/qt-world-summit-2015-whats-better-than-a-speaker-announcement/

I don't know, I'm afraid that Qt is not caring much about mobile anymore.

Em qui, 16 de jul de 2015 às 11:29, Gian Maxera <gmaxera at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Let’s focus on the website and Qt … because even If I want to convince a
> big company to move and using Qt … how can I do that if the Qt website is
> so messy and so a disaster ?
> I don’t think a company that can afford 350 $/month will be convinced by
> the Qt website that their product is reliable and trustable … because
> (maybe it’s my bias) but everything some commercial doesn’t give me a clear
> view of their product and a clear view of pricing … I always think that his
> going to cheat me in someways. Maybe it’s me … who knows :-)
> We don’t know how many commercial licenses Qt sell and how much is the Qt
> profit.
> Why don’t share also this information on the website ?
> I think is can be very useful for catching new customer to clear state on
> the website something like that: “We have 14500 companies that rely on Qt
> Commercial license”
>
> Ciao,
> Gianluca.
>
>
> On 16 Jul 2015, at 10:23, Daniel França <daniel.franca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ohh, forgot about the extended availability of indie licenses.
>
> Anyway, I do agree 100% with Nuno, most of people I talk don't even know
> about Qt.
> Qt is an amazing framework, QML is fantastic to build UI, but it's missing
> the point to let more people know about it and I don't think that removing
> indie license is a good move in that direction.
>
>
> Em qui, 16 de jul de 2015 às 10:42, Nuno Santos <nunosantos at imaginando.pt>
> escreveu:
>
>> To all Qt company workers out there:
>>
>> Please pass this feedback to the right persons in sales and management.
>> This last month has clearly shown that there is a lot on unexploited sales
>> potential out there.
>>
>> Having a good product is not enough. You need to know how to sell it!
>>
>> Xamarin has a clear pricing table, does Adwords, Facebook Ads, etc. This
>> is something every company does nowadays to sell their products.
>>
>> Most of the developers I know and talk to *don’t even know* Qt.
>>
>> Qt has an AWESOME product but most of the developers don’t know about it.
>> That will not happen by miracle!
>>
>> You should definitely start organising local events with Qt evangelisers
>> in key cities, to spread the technology and show it’s potential.
>>
>> And YES, the new website is a complete disaster.
>>
>> Please exchange the *Download* top bar navigation by *Pricing* and be
>> explicit. You have a good example here:
>>
>> https://store.xamarin.com/
>>
>> With the indie licenses you don’t earn money in short term, but you are
>> preparing the new wave of developers to evangelise your technology and use
>> it in the future in their successful companies or jobs.
>>
>>
>> Or maybe we are all wrong and Qt Company is already having a huge profit
>> and an exponential growth in users, if that is the case, sorry, we don’t
>> have the data to see the whole picture.
>>
>> Once again, Qt Rocks!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nuno
>>
>> On 16 Jul 2015, at 09:28, Gian Maxera <gmaxera at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I don’t know if in this mailing list there is someone in charge of
>> developing the Qt.io new website … so, sorry If I’m complaining on the
>> wrong list, but the new Qt.io website is a nightmare maze ! :-(
>> There is no way to understand what Qt does on different platform and
>> license.
>> Where is a simple pricing table with what’s included or not ? Where is a
>> list and a comparison of what it’s included for each commercial license ?
>> What are the purpose of the wizard-questions that get you to one of the
>> Qt products ? The questions are very strange and weird !
>> Why I cannot just select the type of the license I want without answering
>> to all these questions ?
>> How can I get the indie license ? I tried to answer in different ways
>> trying a lot of combination … but I always end on two possible outcomes:
>> LGPL free and 350$/month commercial one !
>> So, are there only two type of licensing ? So, why just do not clear say
>> that on the website ?
>>
>> Sorry about this complain … but I’m complaining because I love Qt … and
>> the old website was so good, so clear, so simple … that this new confusion,
>> obscure website does not help me to spread the voice about the powerful of
>> Qt.
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Gianluca.
>>
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