You are forgetting the "Must have apple kit" to develop and compile, that adds quite a bit more onto the $99. The need to buy a mac just to write IPhone apps is what is stopping me from doing so. Davy.
*Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes*. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Michael Ridland <rid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ha ha you could never use Apple as a reference for being friendly To devs, > in the early days of iOS their platform was hardly documented and ide > absolute junk, then you couldn't even talk in public forums about anything. > Swift was many many years overdue. Apple don't give a $&#& about > developers, probably never will. > > > On Friday, November 14, 2014, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> > wrote: > >> It's exciting. In comparison, to develop in the Apple world, you download >> XCode for free, sign up to the Developer program ($99) and that's it. >> Compare to Microsoft is somewhat more expensive. MSDN Ultimate is around >> the $10K mark. The Visual Studio Community stuff is great to see. I'm >> wondering what the difference will be between community versions and >> enterprise versions. >> As a solo developer will I be able to do everything with the community >> versions? Open source is fantastic step but I am left wondering how >> Microsoft will make money from that. Services, as someone else mentioned? >> >> The other advantage to making .Net open sourced is that more eyes will >> view the code, resulting in better code. Microsoft do a great job improving >> their code but imagine how much better it could be if you multiply the >> number of people working on it! We all gain from this and is there a >> downside? Not one I can think of... >> >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:58 PM, David Kean <david.k...@microsoft.com> >> wrote: >> >>> This is something that my immediate team has been pushing for a little >>> while internally and finally announced yesterday: >>> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.aspx >>> . >>> >>> >>> >>> This is going to be pretty massive for Microsoft and the community. It >>> will be the biggest code base that we've open sourced and is one of the >>> biggest changes I've seen in the ~13 years I've been using .NET (and now >>> working on .NET). >>> >>> >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>
