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I wonder why they charge for the tools to develop on their platform. Charging for the forums/bug tracker is probably a good way to keep people out who aren't t
by jankassens 16y ago
I wonder why they charge for the tools to develop on their platform.
Charging for the forums/bug tracker is probably a good way to keep people out who aren't that serious about development, but I don't get why they charge for XCode. It's not like they'd make any relevant amount of money off XCode.
- j_baker 16y agoTo be fair, this is a $5 fee for a full-featured version of their development tools. Compare that to the cost of a full-featured Visual Studio.
- metageek 16y agoOne difference is that MS also has a free command-line compiler.
- vtail 16y agohttp://www.opensource.apple.com/source/gcc/gcc-5646/ http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/gcc/gcc-5646/ http://llvm.org/releases/download.html http://llvm.org/releases/download.html
- goalieca 16y agogcc/clang are completely open source. In fact, the ones online are far more recent versions than what apple has been shipping. I believe apple still ships gcc42 as of the last free xcode.
- drdaeman 16y agoThat's because GCC has changed licensing to GPLv3, and Apple didn't like that. So they left with last GPLv2 version.
- j_baker 16y agoAre there really that many compelling additions to gcc since then? This is a serious question, not a rhetorical one.
- goalieca 16y agothe optimizers are significantly better, enhanced profiling, standards compliance more strict, c++0x additions, and improved compile times.
- tibbon 16y agofree as in beer, not your rights
- DanI-S 16y agoVS is also free to students and small businesses.
- Tycho 16y agoI think non-iOS/OSX developers probably still make up a large number of their MacBook(Pro) customers. And perhaps moreso now with their new version.