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Re:WordPressiOS Locked by App Store by bigiain on Friday August 21, 2020 @11:44PM (#24241349)
> Each engineer is probably paid more per day than that.

Except for parts of the world where that's closer to a week or months worth of pay...

Re:WordPressiOS Locked by App Store by scarface74 on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:27AM (#24243654)
And those parts of the world aren’t buying $400 iPhones (which are more expensive in developing countries) plus Macs. They are developing for Android.
Re:WordPressiOS Locked by App Store by bottled_poe on Saturday August 22, 2020 @12:47AM (#24241626)
It looks like you may be out of touch with the global market
Re:WordPressiOS Locked by App Store by ac29 on Saturday August 22, 2020 @01:51AM (#24241954)
There are substantial portions of the world where median income per household is 10000USD or less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income
Re:WordPressiOS Locked by App Store by mantas on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:27AM (#24250022)
And software developers make few times the median in such places.

Source: am developer in a country you describe

Re:WordPressiOS Locked by App Store by dkersten on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:49AM (#24242752)
Do people who live there own an iphone or a macbook? If not, how are they developing for those devices?
Re:WordPressiOS Locked by App Store by solarengineer on Saturday August 22, 2020 @07:08AM (#24243321)
They often take a bank loan to buy a Mac + iPhone for the whole office, and devs take turns working on it and programming on it. The Apple Account would be for one person ("the company").
Re:WordPressiOS Locked by App Store by mantas on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:29AM (#24250028)
That's where hackintoshes come in. Technically development doesn't require a physical device too. Of course, UX is likely to be kinda poor when working in simulator only. But that's how it goes.
Re:WordPressiOS Locked by App Store by mantas on Saturday August 22, 2020 @01:45AM (#24241911)
In those parts developers ain't paid local salaries..