How long before Apple kicks them out of the apple store? I thought Apple always had a policy of limited tolerance toward xamarin (after having banned them once). Isn't them becoming MSFT a casus belli?
Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
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Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
#82How much? I know it's undisclosed but it would be very interesting. Hopefully someone leaks it. The rumor was Miguel told MS to "F*#K Off" when MS presented him with an offer many years ago. This lead to CoreCLR being open sourced and Visual Studio Code being built. I'd like to know if by undermining parts of Xamarins business they were able to get them at substantial discount - especially with the tech industry down…
Rumor is just south of $300 Million. A nice chunk of change...but Xamarin had the gas and customers to head much higher valuations. Congrats to all involved.
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#83Woot!
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#84I wonder why it was so much delayed!
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes indeed, right now Xamarin is very very buggy and also pretty slow. I think the software will get MUCH better if the teams at Microsoft will start working on it.
or its embrace extend extinguish?
Nonsense. The last 5 years show it's a whole new Microsoft.
Disclaimer: I have been one of the ones pushing the last 5 years to make that statement true. ;)
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
or its embrace extend extinguish?
That doesn't apply here. This is a strategic purchase for Microsoft. They have no competing technology. That was in reference to standards. Microsoft wanted to turn open standards into proprietary standards to drive people toward their products.
...Xamarin studio isn't a competitor to Visual Studio?
That's all I know that Xamarin makes, so I think this article is going a bit over my head, but it'll be a shame if I suddenly need a Microsoft account to use it. I do like diversity in my language tooling.
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#87This probably also means Unity3d will soon be able to use an updated version of Mono, because Microsoft wants to back them and doesn't force them to pay the full licence price.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would MS want to extinguish a successful technology that they just bought?
Embrace a new technology Extend with proprietary functionality Extinguish the competition
Even though it's based on Microsoft's existing technology? That saying just doesn't make sense here...
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#89How long before Apple kicks them out of the apple store? I thought Apple always had a policy of limited tolerance toward xamarin (after having banned them once). Isn't them becoming MSFT a casus belli ?
Its Google which logger heads with Microsoft. Microsoft and Apple generally get along. Heck, for IPad Pro announcement Microsoft Office was featured on the stage.
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#90As someone who works in .NET ecosystem, this is HUGE. I think there is huge synergy [1] to be exploited by combining Xamarin's team with language/compiler design/visual studio team. I think MS is extremely well positioned to be a leading development platform across desktop/web/mobile in the enterprise space with this acquisition. [1] Never thought I would ever use that word in a comment.
Never thought I would ever use that word in a comment.
You either die a developer or live long enough to see yourself become the manager?