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Re:Major upgrades to Xamarin’s platform: Async is here by mahmud on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @11:18PM (#6100719)
And there is nothing wrong with that. Xamarin staff have given the world so much; I'd say billion+ dollar industry was built on the back of their labor. About time Miguel et al profited.
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Re:Major upgrades to Xamarin’s platform: Async is here by solomatov on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @11:30PM (#6100747)
I agree that it's nothing wrong in making money. All the work should be paid.

However, their license makes their technology a niche product, when it could have been the main way mobile applications are developed.

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Re:Major upgrades to Xamarin’s platform: Async is here by mathgladiator on Thursday July 25, 2013 @01:09AM (#6101023)
> could have been the main way mobile applications are developed

is this so bad? I see at a competitive advantage to use their platform.

I'd rather ship 1.0 and 2.0 quickly to learn from customers than focus on the one true way to build mobile applications.

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Re:Major upgrades to Xamarin’s platform: Async is here by the_mitsuhiko on Thursday July 25, 2013 @04:48AM (#6101500)
> However, their license makes their technology a niche product

Does not seem very niche to me.

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Re:Major upgrades to Xamarin’s platform: Async is here by benologist on Thursday July 25, 2013 @08:28PM (#6105890)
The price starts at $300 per person per platform per year, and that applies to you right now should you decide to build anything that involves more than a few kilobytes of code.

Nobody's going to pick up Xamarin for fun, for experimentation, for learning, for scratching a creative itch. You can't download it for your kids or recommend it to your students. They have no product for use outside of companies and that guarantees it will be and die a niche riding on companies not wanting to retrain their .NET developers for iOS and Android.

Earlier this month I got to choose between Xamarin and everything else, I have years of C# experience and I like their IDE for general c#-on-mac stuff.

I chose Haxe instead.

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