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My assumption has always been the primary reason for the $99 cost is the code signing, similar to buying an SSL cert. There may also be a bit of a filter-funct
by SoftwareMaven 16y ago
My assumption has always been the primary reason for the $99 cost is the code signing, similar to buying an SSL cert. There may also be a bit of a filter-function involved: if you aren't willing to spend $99, they don't want you in the playground.
Honestly, I really doubt they are making much money on developer tools (unlike, say, Microsoft). Remember, you only need to pay the $99 to publish (not to develop) and only one person per company has to pay it, so of those 300k+ apps, the actual number of developer subscriptions is a lot lower.
- recoiledsnake 16y ago>My assumption has always been the primary reason for the $99 cost is the code signing. It costs so much to run a program to sign a binary file with your private key? Am I missing something here? >similar to buying an SSL cert These people must be having a lot of cash to burn through then. http://www.startssl.com/?app=1 http://www.startssl.com/?app=1
- nlogn 16y agoApple may not make money on developer tools wrt software, but they certainly sell plenty of macs to developers as a requirement to develop for their platform.