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Real question: Why defend Apple charging developers $100 a year for the service of developing for their OS? Do we think it costs Apple $100 a year to grant thi
by jzb 4y ago
Real question: Why defend Apple charging developers $100 a year for the service of developing for their OS?
Do we think it costs Apple $100 a year to grant this?
The burden should be on Apple to justify this.
- jagged-chisel 4y agoYou’ll notice I made no argument in defense of Apple. You can definitely develop for their desktop OS without paying that $100 fee. If you don’t want to use all the free languages out there that will run on many platforms (macOS included), and you’d rather use Apple’s tools to build natively, well now you have to spend money on Apple hardware. If you need an argument in defense of paying $100/yr for a signing certificate: it’s definitely a barrier to entry. It makes high volume scams based on obtaining signing keys too expensive. If it were free for all, it would be a free-for-all for scammers … until the world asked Apple to “do something about it” and that something would be charging for access to those certs.