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See my other reply in this same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399788 Long story short, you pay
by Terretta 6y ago
See my other reply in this same thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399788
Long story short, you pay $100/year or $8.33/month for access to a suite of services that make apps frictionless for your users, and easier for you as a developer to offer high end features like authentication, notifications, and sync:
- App discovery, hosting, distribution, updates
- CloudKit, iCloud Documents, iCloud K/V Store
- Push Notifications
- Sign-in with Apple
- etc. (NFC is also in the list)
Details: https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev21218dfd6 https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev21218dfd6
You do not have to pay anything if you do not want any of those services, however you will have to “refresh” your test app cert weekly or work around that.