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Really that's a pittance. And it'll keep people from blatantly spamming the App reviewers with garbage.
by roadnottaken 16y ago
Really that's a pittance. And it'll keep people from blatantly spamming the App reviewers with garbage.
- statictype 16y agoYeah but it kind of sucks for open source apps
- rimantas 16y agoI don't know. Let's say I wan't to host it myself, I'd pay about $240 per year for Linode VPS.
- danieldk 16y agoI'd pay nothing, and host it on GitHub. In fact I, and many others do.
- preek 16y agoThe OP said "Let's say I wan't to host it myself". So his pricing is right. And the new appstore doesn't stop anyone from hosting their OSS on github - even for Macs. The appstore is for the average user; github is for the better than average programmer.
- sp332 16y agoD'oh, I read wan't as don't want because of the superfluous '.
- president 16y agoyou'd also be alienating a large number of non-technical users who just want to see a large download button.
- philwelch 16y agoIf your users are the "compile from source" crowd, I agree the Mac App Store has no benefit to you.
- petsos 16y agoOh come on. I'm sure they could easily get it through donations if they really can't handle the $99/year.
- robryan 16y agoWould be a good gesture if they were to make it free for open source apps, even free apps that are closed source but don't contain ads.
- trotsky 16y agoHave the terms changed so radically from the mobile store? At least there licenses like the GPL are incompatible with the extra restrictions that Apple places on the software it distributes, causing software to be removed or refused.
- rimantas 16y agoI guess some would pay that much just for exposure on Mac App store, even if they had to host the app and process the payments themselves.
- cryptoz 16y agoIt'll also keep out a lot of indie games, free software and other cool things. It's sad.
- smackfu 16y agoIt just means the garbage will be submitted by people with $100. There's plenty of junk on the iOS App Store which has the same developer license required.