Linked by snydeq on Mon 14th Sep 2009 21:43 UTC
Novell has announced MonoTouch 1.0, a commercial SDK kit that allows developers to build iPhone apps using Microsoft's .Net Framework instead of the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages. The SDK leverages Novell's Mono runtime for running Windows apps on non-Windows systems, allowing developers to utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#.
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RE: I don't see this going anywhere
by memson on Tue 15th Sep 2009 08:34
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At $399 for a "Personal Edition" license and $999 for the "Enterprise Edition", I don't see this going much of anywhere. It's just plain not worth that much money.
I was in the beta test program and was quite optomistic that the pricing would be $99 for a personal license... it is way, way too much money - especially for hobbyist programmers. The mailing list errupted with the shock of the pricing when announced late last week. There were two camps - (1) people that wanted to write one or two apps and take a punt at the App Store glory, they pretty much balked, (2) people working for larger companies smiled as they mentally charged the cost back to their employers. Shame as the compiler and technology is amazing and extremely exciting for a C#/DotNet developer.
This has pretty much made me realise that Mono is not for me though. Novell is draconian.
RE[2]: I don't see this going anywhere
by TObYv on Tue 15th Sep 2009 09:41
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RE: I don't see this going anywhere
by CaptainN- on Tue 15th Sep 2009 15:00
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At $399 for a "Personal Edition" license and $999 for the "Enterprise Edition", I don't see this going much of anywhere. It's just plain not worth that much money. Which is really a shame, because C# really is a much "friendlier" language than Objective-C, which to me has always seemed to me to be an ugly kludge trying to cram C-like and Smalltalk syntax into the same language...
Edited 2009-09-15 01:18 UTC