If Apple is really losing money on the App Store, then maybe they ought to change the model. Make the yearly developer license cheaper - $50 or $20 or whatever

If Apple is really losing money on the App Store, then maybe they ought to change the model. Make the yearly developer license cheaper - $50 or $20 or whatever. Then charge another $20 or so every year for each app that you publish. Developers who put out a lot of apps will pay more than those who have the license but have not even released an app yet. They could come up with a way to charge for every 'major revision' (ie, not a bug-fix update) you push out so that developers who are constantly putting up updates (and thus using more of the reviewer's time) end up paying more.