Yep.

From the court documents, Apple said there are 27M AppStore registered devs. Even if only half of those pay $100 per year that's still about $1.3B per year.

Pennies, when compared with console devkit prices.

Surely there are not 27 million console developers?

No, because the money stakes to get into the console development game party is much higher than iOS, which apparently Epic is happy to pay for.

Those devs do still need a Mac and (most likely) an iOS device too. There's your dev kit.

Edit:

It's even worse than with consoles as every dev needs at least a Mac. When developing for consoles most work is not done on the dev kit itself.

Even worse. $100 is for individual developers, it’s $299 per year for organizations.

Google asks for $25, once, for a team that can be an individual or an organization, as you wish.

Even wor... really?

That is less than the coffee bean budget for a month at most of these organizations. They probably spend more than that a year on parts and labor for the coffee equipment.

That organization fee is a token fee. A little friction so that it makes you serious and it stings a bit if it gets cancelled. To maybe not faff about and get down to shipping a product. A few bucks to cover things like CA maintenance and help fund some outreach programs I suspect.

$100 for individuals might be a bit on the steep side, I'll grant you. Or a stick to get you to become an organization as soon as possible.

Even worse is in relation with 30% cut. They charge $100 per year for the development tools. Yet, the outcome of the development tools must be sold in Apple market with 30% cut.

It’s 10 times the $25 from Google Play, and is per year. That’s in addition to the $100 that you have for the Apple store as far I understood their documentation.

I mean, that's 12x, but last I heard you also make about 8x as much money on iOS as you do on Google Play, so dickering over $274 is still petty.

If you are an organization, Apple’s fee is still $99 per year for the standard account with App Store publishing access.

There is a second program called the Apple Developer Enterprise Program, which is $299 per year, and is only required if you wish to deploy apps for internal use across your organization without using the App Store.

Correct, I mixed “enterprise” and “organization”. Thanks for the clarification and additional details

It is $99 for developer organizations. It is $299 for enterprises who wish to do their own enterprise signing (e.g skip the store).