What's the point? Either pay the $100, or don't. How much cash money Apple has is orthogonal to how the developer program is structured. Maybe the $100 fee has

What's the point? Either pay the $100, or don't. How much cash money Apple has is orthogonal to how the developer program is structured. Maybe the $100 fee has benefits for gatekeeping purposes, but that's a separate evaluation and discussion. I'm not an iOS dev, and anything I would do on mobile would be Android first, so I don't have any reason to try to defend Apple here.