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Gonna be brutally honest here, those pricing plans are shit. Allow me to log in for an unlimited amount of time and lower the price a bit, and we'll talk.
Awesome service. Way to complex pricing. Make the user choose between two choices. Plan A: limited to X hours/day, Plan B: unlimited usage. Price each accordingly to achieve the desired outcome. My bet is, the actual usage of "unlimited" users will be similar to users of the limited plan, with a few outliers.
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You'd be likely to hit import taxes on that.
Are import taxes of 100% ((1200 - 600) / 600) realistic?
- Someone who owns a computer, with a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse (of course)
- Someone with a decent internet access
- Someone who has either invested or going to invested 100's of hours to properly learn the iOS/Mac frameworks
- Someone who is hoping to either make a living off his Mac development or threats this as in important hobby
- Someone who will be able to afford to pay $20+/monthly = $240+/yearly
- And finally, someone who is either unable to afford an older mac mini ($200-300 as noted in other comments) OR someone who has no cheap way to deliver older mac hardware to his home country.
From all the above, the potential market size seems too small to me to be an interesting business. Am I missing something?
So what kind of "developer" can't afford a computer of their own?
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Wire cutters cost a couple bucks. A decent Mac you could use for development is a bit more expensive.
The cost is not relevant to my point. If you want to start a courier service in a fairly large area, motorized vehicles are a bit more expensive than a Mac. Can't afford the tools? Find another line of work.
It's the difference between having to buy a van to start a courier service, and having to buy a BMW because someone says you have to. I understand the necessity of having to own a van to run my business, but why do I have to pay extra for one that has no extra capability?
I did mobile dev for a living. Cross compiling across architectures and OSes is part and parcel to the beast. The fact that Apple won't let you is an artificial restriction.
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iOS or OS X?
This conflation is happening all over the place .. people don't understand that iOS and OSX are different, it seems. I wonder if this is going to, at some point, work in Apples favour .. ?
Many people have speculated about the changes in 10.7 that made it much more like iOS, with the exact idea that one day iOS and OSX will be essentially the same thing (at least from the user perspective anyway). I certainly see them heading in this direction...