Apple Developer Fees
Discussions center on the $99 annual Apple Developer Program fee required for iOS app development, sideloading, and App Store distribution, including debates on its reasonableness, comparisons to other platforms, and waivers for non-profits.
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You pay Apple a developer fee. It's not free.
Makes sense for Apple to make developer accounts free while publishing to the store cost money.
Apple charge you a subscription just to develop for their platform.
it’s the price users will pay for the phone, not the price developers pay for utilising apple APIs and services?
You can distribute an app for free if you pay Apple $99?
How about the $99/yr app store fee they already pay?
the devs had to pay big fees to apple to get the app posted
You no longer need to pay $99 to run code on your phone. You pay only if you want to distribute it through AppStore.
It costs money to join the Apple Developer Program so it's probably in peoples' minds to at least recoup that.
Reminds me of the $99 yearly fee to submit apps to the App Store. Except Apple isn't one for charity.