You might be the weird & privileged one if you think that $100/year is not a lot of money for some people, certainly those who are not chasing profit (i.e. 13 y

You might be the weird & privileged one if you think that $100/year is not a lot of money for some people, certainly those who are not chasing profit (i.e. 13 year olds who later grow up to be valuable developers). > Developing for android or Linux is not free. You need to have a lot of resources already to get started here, too It absolutely is, if you already have the device, which can be a hand-me-down from a parent or sibling like it was in my case. > But let be real about it. Nothing is free It's an objective fact that other platforms do not have this barrier in place. It is a fact that Apple is the special one here, demanding a repeated payment that is significantly higher than the one-off payment of their direct competitor ($100/year vs $20 one time, and that $20 is only necessary if you want to use their store). You can stick your head in the sand all you want, but that doesn't change the facts. By the way, that app of mine? Wound up making me $5k which was huge for a young child, and Google made $800. Easy money for them. Apple, of course, got nothing because of their barriers. And I never would've gotten the chance at all if Google had had similar policies in place.