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Re:Apple forced to allow sideloading and 3rd-party app store... by latexr on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:26AM (#30820482)
> the majority of apps don’t pay apple a cent

Every app in Apple’s App Stores makes them a minimum of 99USD/year, the cost of an Apple Developer account.

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Re:Apple forced to allow sideloading and 3rd-party app store... by xazo on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @10:04PM (#30850740)
That's a trivial amount to enable Apple to provide documentation and tooling support for developers. I doubt it comes anywhere close to paying for all the libraries and frameworks they develop and maintain.
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Re:Apple forced to allow sideloading and 3rd-party app store... by PlanckMeasure80 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @08:43PM (#30825709)
But you can publish multiple apps with one account
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