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I definitely agree with you, having grown up on free tools, but $5 is a lot easier to ask a parent for than $99/year to get access to this kind of stuff.
by jonursenbach 16y ago
I definitely agree with you, having grown up on free tools, but $5 is a lot easier to ask a parent for than $99/year to get access to this kind of stuff.
- plusbryan 16y agoIt's doubtful that today's parents need to be convinced of such things. Not only is $99 cheaper than that piano of yesteryear, it also has a significantly higher rate of return.
- jarin 16y agoSeriously. If one of my kids asked me for 5 bucks to buy Xcode, I wouldn't hesitate for a second. I wouldn't even make them do the dishes first.
- elai 16y agoThe whole using a credit card online adds a lot of hesitation for parents, even if it's $5. It did for mine.
- potatolicious 16y agoThe $99/year thing is not terrible. I remember saving money from my paper route to buy tools/lib licenses to some specialized things I really wanted. Selling your parents on a single $99 purchase is a lot easier than trying to sell a $5 purchase every week. 'Tis just the way it is. jarin below mentions he wouldn't hesitate buying his kid Xcode for $5... that only works if the parent is in the field also. How many, say, accountants or lawyers would buy their precocious coder-child a bunch of tools or understand the importance of it?
- jarin 16y agoAll the hypothetical teenager would have to do is point them to one of the many news articles about other teenagers making millions on the App Store.
- brudgers 16y ago>"I remember saving money from my paper route to buy tools/lib licenses to some specialized things I really wanted." Today, a teenager would say, "What's a paper route?"
- potatolicious 16y agos/paper route/burger flipping/g?
- neutronicus 16y agoProblem is you need a car first.