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Indeed. In the Microsoft model, small developers, who couldn't pay the thousands of dollars for development cost and figure out their own distribution lost. I
by umeshunni 4y ago
Indeed.
In the Microsoft model, small developers, who couldn't pay the thousands of dollars for development cost and figure out their own distribution lost.
In the App Store model, everything is free (or very cheap, $99), till you make revenue.
- nightski 4y agoThis is not really true. It was relatively easy to obtain a copy of visual studio for rather cheap if you tried. I know because I used their tools all through high school, college, and beyond and was rather poor during those times in the late 90s/2000s. I always managed to stumble on free licenses. They never tried to leech your revenue later on either.
- ascagnel_ 4y agoMicrosoft was very active in giving free licenses out for education, but those licenses often wouldn't allow for commercial use. If you've never been through a license audit, their legal team would usually make you pay through the nose or suffer through a lawsuit if they found you weren't using the right license for your dev tools. That said, they'd generally target bigger businesses over smaller dev-only shops.