Apple Raises Product and Developer Program Prices in Some Countries

[macsmurf]

I personally don't think it's stupid. How are they suppose to prevent people from taking advantage of that. If I was able to create an app and put it on my device then what's stopping me from putting that App online putting some malware in it and having hundreds of thousands of people downloading it? The provisioning is there for a reason, like it or not. It's helping to protect us... If you know of another protection/work around please sure.

People already take advantage of that by jail breaking or buying provisioning profiles.

In reality Apple would protect us better by making provisioning profiles free for testing. In that case there would be no reason for people to involve third party software which potentially can do bad things.

 

[DesertNomad]

$100 is nothing. If you are really developing for the Mac and iOS you will have:

1. Your main Mac used for development ($2,000 - 3,000)
2. A spare Mac to be used as a test machine for beta ($1,000 - $2,000)
3. At least one iPad and one phone (or iPod Touch) ($1,000)

So with at least $4K already invested, an extra $100 is nothing.

I started developing for the Mac in 1989 when the developer program cost $500 and then you had to buy MPW and the Inside Mac books which could set you back another $1,000 at least. Then CodeWarrior came along and it was still $500.

 

[acctman]

People already take advantage of that by jail breaking or buying provisioning profiles.

In reality Apple would protect us better by making provisioning profiles free for testing. In that case there would be no reason for people to involve third party software which potentially can do bad things.

again who's going to test this apps for malware? if you give the developer freedom to load apps on any device you pretty much open the iOS up to a lot of malware. Yes you can get jailbreaks but even that has its own underground management/review system. Bottom line it's $99 and if you're a serious developer it's nothing. You have an iOS device and a Mac yet $99 is too much. Come on now, people who complain about that are the same people who buy $3-5 cups of coffee each day or have this expensive coffee makers at home

 

[acctman]

I see new potential developers embrace Android

$120+/yr is nothing, people spend that on alcohol or food in a week. Think about this is cost close to $50k to develop on the xbox platform. If you're serious about dev'ing you're not going to complain about paying $99-200 a year. Considering you can potential make thousand and more off of Apple's user base. Any dev knows you can make more on iOS than you can ever dream of on Android.

 

[diipii]

So Apple want you to develop their programs for them..and charge you for it ?
And people actually do it ?????????

 

[mrex]

what quality apps? the store is full of crap that people dont even use ever. just check the latest added apps on the last month and 99% is useless ****, althought there was already a dev. prog... so what exactly that 100dollar payment prevented? nothing...