Nobody should have to pay for development tools when the company profits substantially from the individual developing for their platform. They're going to raise

Nobody should have to pay for development tools when the company profits substantially from the individual developing for their platform. They're going to raise the price even higher as time progresses, simply because they can. Apple is a monopoly within it's own bustling platform, nobody rivals iTunes on the Mac other than Songbird, and few use Songbird. That's a very similar situation with iLife. And then the way apps are mass marketed to people is being directly controlled by Apple as well now with the Mac App Store. Apple sounds a whole lot like Microsoft in the 90's and early 2000's. However, there's a striking difference between them and Apple, Microsoft kept it more open, they focused on the software side of things and just that. Microsoft focused on owning and maintaining the platform, whereas Apple is focusing on being the platform.