If you are an Indie developer then its much cheaper, but you can't use it in Visual Studio. What are they saying, that Indie developers don't use Visual Studio? There needs to be something in between Indie and Enterprise. I'm certainly not an Enterprise and I'm not an Indie. I'm a professional/contractor who works on Enterprise projects. (If we're resorting to name calling).
I suspect Xamarin won't be reading these. I'm sure people have made noise but they ... just had an idea. I have a Xamarin contact I can forward this thread to. It might help. If you don't ask, you don't get. Anyone have any objections? These emails all end up on the public archives anyway so I imagine it can't hurt. :) On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > License is about to expire and its expensive as hell. More expensive than >> my Microsoft msdn subscription and look what that gives you. >> > > Ooh, do you mean the Xamarin licence? I just discovered that there is a > 20% discount for MSDN subscribers, which brings the business price down to > $800/year. I personally think this is still a hell of a lot, especially > when I'm in the position that I've only been asked to create a > proof-of-concept that our Silverlight app can be replicated on an iPad. I > emailed Xamarin to ask if my (never used) trial period can be reset, but > that only gives me 30 days of panic to learn, configure and create the > demo. I hope that someone from Xamarin reads this hint that the price is > *really > *steep, unless you know you can recoup the cost somehow. I think the > pricing structure is overbalanced to deflect low-frequency users from > considering its use. > > *GK* >
