[bigyabai]

Indeed, but also free compilers, which lowered the cost of creating new software to $0.00 long before AI services did.

Many of the expenses in making a successful software business are a total fiction for both customers and employees from the start. Lines like "careful App Store curation" is the 21st century Shipping & Handling surcharge, in terms of extracting arbitrary profit from your audience. The idea that "software isn't worthless" had to be invented by mankind, and it was apparent that it was a lie when early networks like Usenet were dominated by software piracy. Software has been worthless for so long now.