iPhone Basic 1.7 vs iPhone Basic 2.6

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Hi. I’m a long-time user of Unity Indie Unity iPhone Basic (now up to V1.7). On the Unity Store I see that I can upgrade my existing Unity and Unity iPhone licenses to 2.6 for $100.

Trust me, I’m not complaining about anything here. I’ll gladly pay that for just about any upgrade. The problem is, I can’t find anything about what is actually being upgraded. V1.7 is still prominently advertised on the Unity home screen like it’s the latest and greatest.

Like I said, $100 bucks for just about any feature upgrade (even if it’s just to keep up with current maintenance) is OK with me. But I don’t want to throw away the money if it’s for nothing more than a version number change to align with the current pricing structure.

So… Are there any functional enhancements between iPhone Basic 1.7 and iPhone Basic 2.6?

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there is no iphone basic 2.6

2.6 is desktop only, its counterpart is iphone 1.x (so 1.7)

the next version after that is 3.0, on both

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Thank you, Dreamora. So… again, is there anything at all that spending that $100 would buy me? I’m building strictly iPhone apps, nothing to run on any other player.

Thanks.

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the upgrade to unity iphone 3 buys you the future basically, cause iphone 1.x won’t get any more updates.

when it comes to major things:

  • it gives you native code plugins on the iphone
  • you lose occlusion culling (in u3 done through umbra and pro only)
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Native code plugins sounds like a good thing and staying eligible for future updates is always good. So, I finally have some reasons to get rid of this 100 bucks that’s been burning a hole in my pocket!

Thanks - much appreciated.