>>>>>>In respect of "pretty pricey" - I wouldn't bat an eyelid to spend US$100 or US$10,000 on anything that allows me to develop applications that I can sell to >clients over and over again, royalty free and does the job better than my competition. Whether that is a course, books, tools or complete development >languages and IDEs. These are the tools of my trade. Spending a few hundred dollars should not be a barrier for a serious software developer.
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>>>>>So I gather from above that I can deploy my apps to 1000's of clients without having to spend more than the development fee (yearly). I admit that I did not completely review the website - but that is NOT what I got as impression. It appeared that each of my apps required more than my yearly fee. And what happens when I do not renew my yearly subscription?
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>>>>There is no yearly development fee. They produce a new version more or less yearly and, if you want it, then you can buy the upgrade. That is up to you. If you don't renew that is fine. Skip a version or two or whatever. All you will end up losing is the upgrade discount price when one day you do want to upgrade.
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>>>>They offer 3 platforms;
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>>>>WinDev - Standalone apps, Windows, Linux, 32/64 bit. No end-user royalties at all regardless of number of users or servers they connect to. You can also use the free built in database engine called HyperFile and distribute that as well, which is like VFP's internal database but with all limitations/problems solved i.e. greater than 2GB files, memo field indexing, etc. etc. And/or you can connect to 3rd party databases. This also includes their report writer which can be included for your users. See this online brochure specifically page 4 iro royalty free with the FAQ: http://www.windev.com/windev/ebook/index.html#/4/
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>>>>WinDev Mobile - Mobile app development using the exact same IDE and language ready for Android, Windows Phone 7, Windows CE, Windows Mobile. Applications are royalty free. http://www.windev.com/windevmobile/ebook/index.html#/2/
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>>>>WebDev - Web site development using the same IDE and language as above but targeted for web development. This can produce different types of website, static or dynamic, depending on whether the pages use data from a database or not. This is Web 2.0 ready and you can include code from other languages, PHP, etc. (also possible in WinDev above btw). Will translate WinDev code to Ajax, JavaScript, etc. behind the scenes. You don't need to do it. In fact you can create pure PHP websites with WebDev - it creates the PHP code for you. For this there is a server license called WebDev application server which you must buy to allow more than 10 concurrent users to connect (which is the free version). This extra costs US$393 per server and allows unlimited users to that server.
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>>>>There is also a translation tool for multilingual usage which costs extra at US$800 + US$200.
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>>>>Everything is on their website including pricing http://www.windev.com/. Their online animated brochures are developed in WebDev. PC Soft have been going for 25 years.
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>>>I noticed that the iPhone and iPad are not part of their WinDev Mobile. Does it mean that for iPad you would have to use their web application approach?
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>>At this moment, yes. You can build a dynamic website which, of course, any browser can access. However, I believe that iPhone / iPad is in the works, maybe for version 17 but not sure.
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>Thank you. For me iPhone or iPad are no 1 priority right now. The customers want it now!

Then a website route is an option, depends on the app requirements I guess.