JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps

Re:JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps by tjogin on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @03:47AM (#850002)

You don't, but enrolling in any kind of developer program, or buying any kind of developer software, is going to cost north of $99 a year, which any developer hoping to make even that amount of money will do.

The situation for iPhone developers have a lot of well publicized flaws, but the cost of participating in the developer program (which includes development software and publishing in the App Store) is not one of them.

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Re:JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps by bmj on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @07:22AM (#850144)

You don't need to enroll in a dev program. You can develop .NET apps with freely available tools if you don't want to spend money on Visual Studio.

And jwz isn't trying to make money--he just wants to make his apps available for others to use.

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Re:JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps by tjogin on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @08:36AM (#850230)

Considering the prevalence of todo-list and flashlight apps, it doesn't seem like the $99 is holding anybody back.

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Re:JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps by Quarrelsome on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @09:45AM (#850353)

I develop .NET I can use notepad and csc for free or I can buy tools from MS that save me time. Halfway house is SharpDevelop which is free but not as good as Visual Studio. I don't mind paying for cool tools but it sucks to have to pay to release software.

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