[furyofantares]

Is that an Apple thing? People trying to monetize anything they make seem to vastly outnumber those of us who just want to make stuff for other people to enjoy. When I turn off an adblocker I'm shocked how many hobby projects spam ads at their users to try to make a few pennies.

It feels like a social issue.

[nickthegreek]

Giving away free software on the appstore is gonna cost you $100/yr developer license. Sure, the more apps you make dilutes the cost, but it doesn’t seem like that inviting of a space for maintained free apps.

[hu3]

You'll also need a Mac computer for the happy path so it's more than $100/year.

[Aloisius]

Free for non-profits though.

I'm a little surprised there isn't an open source non-profit set up to act as an umbrella for open source iOS app development.

[oefrha]

Then one bad app and the whole account is nuked. Not a great setup unless with explicit blessing from Apple, which they won’t give.

[esalman]

It's a thing that was started by Apple and now everyone is trying to mimic.

The other day I transferred pictures from my android phone to my Windows desktop, and some of them required a codec to open. I followed prompts, which landed me on a page in Windows store asking for $0.99 in exchange for the said codec.

We had a good Internet in the 90s and 00s. Apple had to ruin that.