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All I hope is that Apple doesn't start locking up the resources that used to once be free, such as Xcode, and all the documentation surrounding it.
by X-Istence 17y ago
All I hope is that Apple doesn't start locking up the resources that used to once be free, such as Xcode, and all the documentation surrounding it.
- potatolicious 17y agoI doubt it - even the iPhone developer program is free until you want to distribute. This does seem somewhat worrying though, they're practically the only company out there that currently has a "consumer" developer program (MS's dev programs are all entirely free until you get to the extreme enterprise end).
- kanwisher 17y agoThings like XNA for XBox/Zune cost $99 a year to deploy to a real device. The free versions of visual studio are somewhat limited also but still generally good.
- whughes 17y agoThose are device developer programs, though. XNA for PC is free, and pretty much all major desktop PC development tracks are free. iPhone/XBox/etc are a different story (and my understanding is that $99 is cheap for such a program).