Is it mandatory to own a Unity Pro License, before using an IOS License? Because, as it stands, I’ve yet to buy a mac…
It is not mandatory. For example it is 100% ok to publish iOS games with unity free providing the license is iOS basic. iOS pro requires unity pro.
basically any license that is not pro, is for unity free, and any license that has pro on it requires unity pro.
It isn’t necessary to own a Pro license to get iOS Basic, but it is required if you are to get iOS Pro. Owning a Mac is necessary, though, for any iOS license.
Edit: I never thought I’d say this, but I was ninja’d by a hippopotamus.
There are two iOS licenses: Pro and Basic.
If you have Unity Basic, you get iOS Basic ($400)
If you have Unity Pro, you need iOS Pro ($1500)
Note the website wont even offer you the option to buy the iOS license if you try to buy from a PC, you need to visit the page from a Mac.
Get the mac before you get the Unity license, since Unity will not allow you to build for iOS from a PC anyways.
If I don’t make a mistake, you can have ios Basic and unity pro.
if you want ios Pro it’s 3000$ because you need also unity pro.
It’s not actually necessary; you can buy iOS Basic with Unity Pro. (Though I doubt many people do that.)
–Eric
Well darnit… I paid for iOS Pro thinking I had to since I already had Unity Pro… I guess that was an $1,100 mistake…
Ergh, so you can’t have iOS Pro without Unity Pro?
Does this mean I have to buy a second license of Unity Pro as well as a Mac and iOS Pro just to publish to iOS? My first license is already installed on my PC and I only get one install as it’s a Studica copy (and annoyingly it’s also got iOS Pro with it… which is useless on a PC) 
I thought I’d just be able to buy iOS Pro with Unity Basic and publish to iOS with that… 
If you get a mac you can always transfer the license to the Mac and uninstall it from the PC.
It’s not like iOS Pro doesn’t have a bunch of features that Basic lacks. I wouldn’t call it a mistake unless you have no use at all for any of those features (which seems unlikely).
Right.
–Eric
Chalk up another few hundred pounds to the running total, then
Not at all, anything to support UT is no mistake 