The author mentions thinking about doing an iPhone app, but being put off by the $9500 price. I know the revenue share pitch is a big old red flag for any deve

The author mentions thinking about doing an iPhone app, but being put off by the $9500 price. I know the revenue share pitch is a big old red flag for any developer worth their salt (most people who want to do a revenue share have some sort of scammy half-baked idea with nothing else to offer for which they want half of the revenue). But this guy is clearly bringing something important to the table (a curated database of etymological data), and the app wouldn't be that complicated (depending on whether the database ships with the app or is lazy-loaded from the server).