Re:Apple Developer Program Membership Fee Waivers Now Available
by BHSPitMonkey on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:48PM
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I doubt anyone actually forced you to buy their phone and computers.
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Re:Apple Developer Program Membership Fee Waivers Now Available
by tootie on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:26AM
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If you want to deploy and iOS app, then you definitely have to. So long as Apple is vertically integrated from hardware to OS to marketplace and it's a 100% walled garden, they will effectively be charging developers a tax to do anything. The fact that they charge a tax on top of all that is what I take offense to. Especially since Google lets anyone make Android phones, lets you develop on any platform and install from any source. And access to publish to their app store is a one-time fee of $25.
Re:Apple Developer Program Membership Fee Waivers Now Available
by freedomben on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:35PM
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He probably means "in order to develop iOS apps"
Re:Apple Developer Program Membership Fee Waivers Now Available
by Spivak on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:11PM
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Nobody forces you to develop iOS apps either. This is the point I think people are missing. Access to Apple's walled garden is valuable enough to people that Apple can charge for it and people will pay it.