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by AlexeyBrin 4254 days ago
> However, for usual business with short time to market, taking into consideration "time spent on feature" X "hourly rate" per developer time, the prices are quite cheap.

I fully agree, for a business that say makes 100k per year, paying about 2k for a Xamarin Business license is affordable.

An interesting pricing strategy would be:

* Free - for hobbyists, give them complete features and make the resulting executable expire in a few days. This will let them try and play with the tool. After they are comfortable with using C# and Xamarin, they will chose a paid license if they want to make money from their work.

* Indie - same as above for small business (less than 100k per year).

* Pro - same as above plus (paid) support.