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Re:Developers: Don't Treat the Windows Store like the iOS Ap... by ahsteele on Friday October 19, 2012 @01:58AM (#4672451)
Assuming I have a monitor, keyboard, etc. the cheapest I can get into developing for iOS is $699- the cost of buying a MacMini and paying for an Apple Developer license. Since the baseline MacMini probably isn't enough machine for most developers push that to $899 or $1099.

On the other side of that coin users are buying iOS devices which net Apple huge profits. Sure the high end Microsoft dev tools are spendy, but don't act like Apple is helping developers out.

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Re:Developers: Don't Treat the Windows Store like the iOS Ap... by JanneVee on Friday October 19, 2012 @02:28AM (#4672508)
It is not that Apple go out of their way to help their devs out. But buying a computer and buying a dev tool license are two different things requiring two different mindsets(think utilisation). And $500 for VS is the lowest end of the paid visual studio. Like I stated in my first post I'm not saying that they should give it away everything for free I just think that lowest end should be cheaper to give the opportunity to individual devs to make better apps.
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