Unity now Available on Android

[TechSY730]

...and $1500 to buy the Android license...

Wait, I'm assuming that is a license to be able to distribute apps for profit? The dev kit itself is free.

No, that's the cost of Unity Android Pro.

Ouch. Why do companies charge so much so dev kits and APIs these days? Don't they know that people will figure out ways to do it without them anyways?

I thought the real value is the support and permission to redistribute.

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...and $1500 to buy the Android license...

Wait, I'm assuming that is a license to be able to distribute apps for profit? The dev kit itself is free.

No, that's the cost of Unity Android Pro.

Ouch. Why do companies charge so much so dev kits and APIs these days? Don't they know that people will figure out ways to do it without them anyways?

I thought the real value is the support and permission to redistribute.

I disagree.  It's worth every penny, and if I didn't need the Pro features, it is in fact free.  It's a fool's errand to try to code your own engine from scratch if you ever want to support more than one platform.

[Echo35]

I disagree.  It's worth every penny, and if I didn't need the Pro features, it is in fact free.  It's a fool's errand to try to code your own engine from scratch if you ever want to support more than one platform.

I was gonna say, I just deployed a bunch of Android SDK's through Eclipse on a lab here, I know the basic stuff is free.