rorschachai

hammeroftruth said:

rorschachai said:

JMaille said:

Without that revenue Apple will have to change it's business models.  Which means developer tools and interface access will be financed like on other platforms. 

Before the App Store, the annual fee for the developer program started at $499 and went up to, I believe, $1,499. Mac OS X upgrades also cost $129. People really believe they’re going to be able to have their cake and eat it too. 

Is it that much? I thought it was $99 and $299 for the two different developer programs. 

It used to be, before the App Store. There were multiple tiers. I forgot about the $3,499 tier, but a chunk of that was due to the WWDC ticket included.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070630060844/developer.apple.com/products/

JMaille said:

Without that revenue Apple will have to change it's business models.  Which means developer tools and interface access will be financed like on other platforms. 

Before the App Store, the annual fee for the developer program started at $499 and went up to, I believe, $1,499. Mac OS X upgrades also cost $129. People really believe they’re going to be able to have their cake and eat it too. 

Apple's motive for its anticompetitive conduct was simple: Apple did not want its iOS Device-related revenue stream to end when a consumer bought an iOS Device, like it generally does when consumers purchase iMac and MacBook computers," the complaint reads. "So Apple concocted and maintained a plan to continue generating additional revenues over the entire useful life of every iOS Device it sold by cornering the distribution market for iOS applications and charging consumers an extra 30% for every app.

I wonder if these people remember that before the iPhone, Apple charged $129 for Mac OS X upgrades, the Developer Program had multiple tiers that started at $500/year (there was a free option, but  it didn't include access to the OS betas), and there certainly weren't a whole lot of great apps for less than $20-30.

Now, the developer program is only $99, all software upgrades are free, and apps are considerably less expensive, not more.

They want Apple to spend billions developing and maintaining the ecosystem without which they wouldn't even have a business, and not recoup any of it.