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How many of those account hadn't been created if it cost $99 to make one?
by m_eiman 5y ago
How many of those account hadn't been created if it cost $99 to make one?
- eplanit 5y agoBizarre why this is down-voted as it addresses the root issue. I'd love a software world where I'm actually the customer (with a voice via my wallet).
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoI'm pretty sure it's downvoted precisely because it doesn't address the root issue; Google developer accounts cost money, too, albeit less.
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y ago$99 seems to be beyond the "grab'em en-masse" pricepoint. For one Apple dev account, you could get 5 Google dev accounts.
- ajford 5y agoHow much do they make off a set of scam/spam apps? If it's at least a 10x margin over the $99 fee, it just seems like a likely gamble for being worth it. If it's 100x, then it's overhead cost. At that point, it only hurts legitimate indy devs who aren't gaming the system.
- hombre_fatal 5y ago> only Well, it would also be hurting all the unprofitable spammers and the spammers who aren’t willing to gamble with $100 to begin with. Like everything, there are just trade offs rather than good vs bad extremes.
- 8note 5y agoUnprofitable scammers sounds like a problem that has already solved itself
- jandrese 5y agoIt does at least raise the bar on how much you need to make from an account before it gets shut down. If each account was making $50 before getting canned then it wouldn't make sense at $99/account. This of course assumes they aren't just stealing credit card numbers and using those to sign up. In that case the higher account price is not much of a barrier. Another way to look at this is Google made $2.4M off of these spammer accounts. Not a lot for a Google sized company, but it's still not nothing.
- allthetime 5y agoApple is 99/year Google is a one time payment.