It'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 gard

It'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.