That's an unfair comparison. That $99 fee isn't for Xcode. It's for access to publish in the App Store and for setting up profiles for ad-hoc development (amon

That's an unfair comparison. That $99 fee isn't for Xcode. It's for access to publish in the App Store and for setting up profiles for ad-hoc development (among other things). So yes, Xcode is now free with that registration. It was always free before. Now its only free for developers who have registered as iOS/Mac App Store developers. it costs 5 bucks or a hundred bucks, though the version that costs a hundred bucks includes some other stuff too. When you buy a vehicle for 20k and the dealer throws in free sunfilm, you aren't buying sunfilm for 20k with some other 'stuff' included.