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

Thu Jul 16 23:23:55 CEST 2015

You deserve a hug :)
My faith in Qt mobile is restored.

Em qui, 16 de jul de 2015 às 19:27, Bob Hood <bhood2 at comcast.net> escreveu:

>  You mean this?
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> http://www.qtworldsummit.com/cpt-sessions/pre-conference-training-qt-for-mobile-platforms-androidios/
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> or this?
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> http://www.qtworldsummit.com/cpt-sessions/getting-started-with-qt-on-android/
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> or this?
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> http://www.qtworldsummit.com/cpt-sessions/qt-on-ios-a-to-z/
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> and here:
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> http://www.qtworldsummit.com/cpt-sessions/extending-qt-on-android-apps-using-jni/
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> What do I win?  :)
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> On 7/16/2015 11:16 AM, Daniel França wrote:
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> 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/
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> I don't know, I'm afraid that Qt is not caring much about mobile anymore.
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>  Em qui, 16 de jul de 2015 às 11:29, Gian Maxera <gmaxera at gmail.com>
> escreveu:
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>>  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.
>>
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>>  On 16 Jul 2015, at 10:23, Daniel França <daniel.franca at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  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:
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>>> 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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