[bluesign]

I think you have totally wrong expectation about developers.

- Ask any reasonable dev if they are willing to foot a fixed cost to get their app screened

I don’t think most devs will support this, considering the constant arguments about IOS development requiring yearly $100 fee.

[cesher]

Read Job’s quote in the article, someone has to foot the bill to ensure the quality of Apps on the store. $100 a year seems reasonable to me for unlimited App screenings imho.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

$100/year is peanuts. It’s a relatively token amount, designed to discourage “non-serious” players, like a minimum bet.

It certainly doesn’t make them money. It just helps to ensure that the people who do use their developer services are ones more likely to generate the revenue that does make them money.

This is something that Apple’s development community is known for. There’s fewer of them, but they do make money.

I’m not weighing in on the issue on either side. They each have quite valid arguments, and I’ll deal with whatever comes out of the scrum.

[simonh]

I agree, screening happens every time you submit an update, that's likely to be hundreds of dollars a time so thousands a year for many devs. Waiving this for free apps won't work because whether or not an app should be free is part of what this is all about. It will kill most genuinely free apps.