Apple removes $99 dev account requirement for first iOS 17 and macOS 14 betas

Re:Apple removes $99 dev account requirement for first iOS 1... by brookst on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @09:07PM (#36235868)

And that's unfortunate, and Apple's loss.

But for every person like you, that fee probably keeps out orders of magnitude more abuse, spam, trolls, other nonsense.

Apple isn't dumb (their evilness is debatable). I'm sure they have tested price points and giving free dev accounts and looked at results. If it produced more harm than good, they'd remove it.

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Re:Apple removes $99 dev account requirement for first iOS 1... by dingledork69 on Thursday June 08, 2023 @10:17AM (#36242258)

And yet somehow Android, Windows, Linux and even MacOS itself all manage to be just fine while still allowing sideloading. Of course MacOS is going down the same dark path by hiding the install option in an obscure menu and lying to the user about potential security issues, but still.

iOS is the only platform that supposedly NEEDS to extract this fee. Stop believing Apple's lies, they've been grifting everyone for years.

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