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I doubt RubyMotion is going to gain any ground until they have a free development/evaluation version. $200 up-front for a license is too spendy for many people just curious to try something out. If there was a free dev/eval version, I'm sure many more licenses of RubyMotion would be sold.

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Agree, i'm dying to have a play with this but I begrudge paying 200 bucks before I even know if I like it! Maybe they should allow you to develop your entire app for free but put some sort of kill switch inside which makes it fail to pass app store validation or w/e.

I think you should see it as an early adopter fee. I bet if more people use RubyMotion, Laurent is going to drop the price.

I bought RubyMotion short after the release and i can say it's really worth the price. If you love Ruby and you love iOS, buy a licence.

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