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Apple have to approve every app before it is release so the cost to them is really the approval process.
by justinhj 9y ago
Apple have to approve every app before it is release so the cost to them is really the approval process.
- curiousgal 9y agoIf only they held their own system apps to the same standards
- tootie 9y agoSo charge for approvals. Why am I paying $99/yr to deploy apps to my own phone when I am already forced to buy their phone and their computers.
- BHSPitMonkey 9y agoI doubt anyone actually forced you to buy their phone and computers.
- freedomben 9y agoHe probably means "in order to develop iOS apps"
- Spivak 9y agoNobody forces you to develop iOS apps either. This is the point I think people are missing. Access to Apple's walled garden is valuable enough to people that Apple can charge for it and people will pay it.
- tootie 9y agoIf you want to deploy and iOS app, then you definitely have to. So long as Apple is vertically integrated from hardware to OS to marketplace and it's a 100% walled garden, they will effectively be charging developers a tax to do anything. The fact that they charge a tax on top of all that is what I take offense to. Especially since Google lets anyone make Android phones, lets you develop on any platform and install from any source. And access to publish to their app store is a one-time fee of $25.