Re:Apple brings App Store to Mac OS X
by jonhendry on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @03:28PM
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How do you both prevent people from installing non-appstore apps and allow developers to develop apps? When Xcode comes with every Mac and a registered developer account is free?
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Re:Apple brings App Store to Mac OS X
by tlrobinson on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @03:30PM
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That's true right now, but who's to say that won't change in the future. You can't run apps on iOS devices without paying $100 to get developer certificates to sign your app first.
Apple actually lowered the barriers to entry on Mac devs. They recently dropped the price to the premium developer access to $99, iirc.
Re:Apple brings App Store to Mac OS X
by jonhendry on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @05:11PM
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But no hardware discounts.
Not sure how that is a big deal.
If any discounts amounted to more than the cost of the premium developer content (i.e., $99), non-developers would pay the fee just to get the discounts.