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I’m also unsure how you can possess the skills to build an entire app and not also posses the skills to read the “annual fee” part of the developer program cost
by slovette 6y ago
I’m also unsure how you can possess the skills to build an entire app and not also posses the skills to read the “annual fee” part of the developer program cost.
Not rooting for Apple, but the pretentiousness in the “I’m not a charity” part seemed far removed from the humbleness required to be unintentionally illiterate.
- umvi 6y agoI was under the impression that the fee was only annual if you wanted to continue developing. I didn't know the fee was also tied to whether or not your existing apps would be taken down. Clearly, this is confusing to other people as well: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5271418/will-my-app-stay-in-the-app-store-after-i-stopped-paying-developer-fee-to-apple https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5271418/will-my-app-stay...
- heavyset_go 6y agoThis was not clear to me for years either until I looked it up.
- hu3 6y agoIt's not just $100/y. You also have to buy Apple hardware to build and test their software. That would be at least an iphone and a macbook air. The wallet garden extends to developers as well. I'm launching an app and I have no desire to buy hardware that treats me like I'm too dumb to be able to install software from whatever source I want. So Apple will be ignored and that's gonna be a net win on sanity and time to polish the product for Android.