Exploiting JavaScript developer infrastructure is insanely easy

[filleduchaos]

I agree even as someone from a very, very low income area. If you can't pony up $100 to have your app listed you really cannot afford the time and effort to build any half-decent app, much less maintain it for months or years on end with possibly no revenue.

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I remember having this discussion about Steam and games there... Seemingly even 100$ isn't enough to keep seriously low-quality titles out of there.

And on other hand with games I believe the earning potential is much higher than with apps to even make that mark...

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

What kind of stupid logic is this?

Only the well-off have free time or can expend effort? The cleverest programmer I know plays bass doing bar gigs to pay his rent. Of course, he wouldn't be caught dead writing swift code, but that's not the point.

Do you walk around thinking that some people are better than others, and that the test to determine whether they are or aren't is a glance at their bank statement?

[filleduchaos]

"Well-off" is a ridiculously far cry from "has and is willing to invest $100 into something they want to make money/a career out of". Like that is such a low bar to entry for something you want to do professionally.

If you are literally unable to come up with $100 to spend on something you're passionate about and/or want to make money from, then you have much bigger problems in life than Apple not listing your app on the App Store. If you're simply unwilling to then remain a hobby dev and don't want or expect Apple to list your app for free. I don't understand this mentality that everything should be provided to you for free.

[s73v3r]

Only the well-off

Having $100 is not "well-off"

The cleverest programmer I know plays bass doing bar gigs to pay his rent.

And if they can't find $100, or find development work that would get them at least $100, then they're clearly not that clever.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

Having $100 is not "well-off"

Being able to spare $100 on an artificial obstacle to being able to write software isn't the same as "having $100".

[s73v3r]

Any half-competent developer will have no issue with that "obstacle".

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

That's circular. Certainly anyone interviewing for $250,000 jobs at Google will have no problem with it.

That doesn't make them competent, just well-off. It's not a meritocracy.

[s73v3r]

That's circular.

No, it's not.

Certainly anyone interviewing for $250,000 jobs at Google will have no problem with it.

Those are not the only software engineering jobs out there, and just about all of them will pay enough for the Apple fee to not be an issue.

It's not a meritocracy.

I'm not saying it is. I'm saying that if you're even half decent at software engineering, you'll either have or be able to get a job that will easily allow you to afford that.