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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by douche on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @04:03PM (#11170202)
Yeah, that thousand dollar per developer price tag is a little steep. I built out a cool little proof of concept app in it last year on a trial license, but it was just not worth it to go in at that price on it, when a mobile client would effectively just be a free feature for us. Using one of the webview wrappers was the better decision at that time.
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by HeavyStorm on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:27AM (#11174211)
Per developer per platform. Two guys developing for ios and Android would pay 2k every month. Add the damn exchange rate (I live in a 3rd world country), and the price is blocking for anything but enterprise development.

I just abandoned it for Ionic after pitching the product to my peers for two years.

Let's just hope that MSFT indeed add it to Visual Studio without any additional costs.

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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by astannard on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:52AM (#11174370)
It was the per platform pricing that killed it for me. I was so annoyed that a solution for multiplatform development made you pay twice. I liked their T-Shirt promotion idea with the tshirt store demo, but that errored out on me and it was their code.
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by niutech on Saturday February 27, 2016 @02:02AM (#11186356)
As an alternative, you can use RemObjects Silver (multiplatform Swift + .NET) for free.
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