About six months ago I've started working heavily with Objetive C and Xcode (IDE).
I've worked with Eclipse about 4-5 years ago for some light Java coding but for some reason it didn't sit with me, somehow felt unfinished and sluggish. Lately I took some of my free time to get acquainted with the Android SDK for which I again needed Eclipse, but this time I was pleasantly surprised. It's light, quick, good layout, and abundance of additional (free) tools and plugins. Compared to the two, Visual Studio feels a bit heavy.

But that's not my main point. My main point is the price. Now, the first two are free (since Xcode 4 Apple started charging for it but only $5 and it's free if you are in the developer program), but not VS. Ok, there's the Express edition, but with that you get very little besides the basic IDE. If you wanted to compare the three you wouldn't even be able to use the Professional Edition of VS which retails at over $500, but at least the Premium (over $5.000) or Ultimate (over $11.000), and most worthwhile plugins for it are not free.

Is it really worth that much? Am I the only one that feels duped?