The following YouTube video summarizes exactly how I felt after reading the announcement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1dQTr7dNnsc#

The following YouTube video summarizes exactly how I felt after reading the announcement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1dQTr7dNnsc#t=15s http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... VS2012 integration w/OSX build host. Oh yeah. Pricing changes have positives and some potential major negatives - In my eyes the "pay money to get started" approach served as a nice filter against pathological customers/mechanism to balance signal to noise. The introduction of a free tier generates mixed feelings within. Xamarin please, please don't allow the inevitable eternal september that will follow to become a distraction. Seen it happen it happen a few times - forums/support become overrun with noise and the companies were inadequately prepared staffing wise for the eternal september, with staff unable to keep up the resulting quality of product/support dropped considerably. From a different perspective the introduction of a free their now makes the toolchain available to those whom could not possibly pay for it - students and countries with weaker purchasing power. (where $xxxUSD is equates to x months/a years wage)