They got alot of pressure about this already and introduced the indie pricing & monthly subscription. Not sure they will change this anytime soon but I think the professional pricing tier sounds like a good idea. The team are very accommodating if you email them, I'm sure they will extend the trial.
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Stephen Price <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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* >> > >
