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The reason that people are pissed is that it's one more annoying hoop to jump through, especially for people without iTunes accounts.What about people kids with
by cooldeal 16y ago
The reason that people are pissed is that it's one more annoying hoop to jump through, especially for people without iTunes accounts.What about people kids without credit cards or Paypal?
All this for what? A paltry $10 million or so for Apple which is already rolling in tens of bilions of cash(partly thanks to developers, you always see Jobs touting the app count). Is it even worth it for Apple?
The company is smacking of greed and squeezing the last dollar these days with all these moves like a forced 30% cut of services and now this, which can damage the ecosystem.
>No, cue the you're assuming you won't get Xcode 4 with Lion rabble.
That makes it even worse, Apple can't be making more than $5 million from this.
- jarin 16y agoNo, the reason that people are pissed is because they want to be pissed. There's no real reason to rage about this, other than a self-created illusion that the only thing stopping some hypothetical FOSS developer somewhere in Romania from creating the next Apache is the inability to pay Apple 5 dollars.
- randylahey 16y agoRight, because no one should be worried when Apple makes overtures towards monetizing what has been traditionally the only working compiler tool chain for OSX. Thanks, I guess I was just over-reacting. :P It's amusing how any time Apple does something like this the apologists come out of the woodwork falling over each other to defend them.
- jarin 16y agoBelieve me, Apple has given me plenty of reason to be angry at them before (I've been a victim of their arbitrary App Store rejections). I'm just saying we should all keep a little perspective on this particular issue.