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my take for one-on-one video calls is that they're hard because you have to constantly be attentive to the other person, and it seems rude to look away or do anything else, whereas…

>In fairness there is tons of scamware, and general garbage in the play store. I've heard this from a few people here, but I'm not convinced that the $99 fee is the relevant differ…

thanks! I'm not a non-profit unfortunately, but hopefully that can be helpful for others. A couple of people have made this Play Store spam-apps comparison but personally I feel li…

hmm, ok, I take your point that the US share specifically doesn't really matter so long as Apple is pricing the developer account globally -- it definitely matters to me (in the se…

To be honest my experience developing for Apple has been pretty unambiguously bad. For example, for (at least) 6 months there was a bug where users couldn't submit an App Store rev…

Yeah, definitely, $10 a year I would pay without complaint.

also.. for the record, my main complaint is that they're kicking off apps that they've already approved if the developer doesn't continue to pay $99 every year. I don't see how tha…

> iOS has a 22% market share according to the first result on Google. that's worldwide, in the U.S. they're at 45%. And it's not a traditional duopoly in that there's huge lock-in …

I'm not trying to be combative but... doesn't Google's one-time fee to make an account do that just as effectively? Or an annual $10 fee, or whatever?

Also, I don't want to sound hokey but... $99 might be low enough for your definition of a "serious developer" but it's not affordable for a hobbyist, a student or someone starting …

I didn't want to look like I was hawking something so I didn't include a link but these are my apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/uri-bram/id1222415460 That's interesting,…

How does the annual fee weed out spammers exactly? Are there examples on Android of the kind of spam apps you're worried about?

I'm a hobbyist developer who made three very small, ad-free apps. Apple charges $99 per year for anyone to make apps (in stark contrast to the $25 one-off fee that Google charges).…

BetterExplained is a ridiculously awesome website for intuitive explanations of complicated maths concepts (that most of us pretend to understand but secretly don't). It's a really…

can you say a little more about what these "frequent email reminders" that you receive look like, and how frequent they are? I've just discovered that I was opted in, had no idea I…

Yes! There's actually a name for exactly this effect in economics, if anyone's interested: The Alchian Allen Theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchian%E2%80%93Allen_effect

The thing I don't get about this argument is that there are many, many, many small companies for every large one. The piece gives several examples of small companies winning agains…