XCode 4
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- Boz0
Let's put it in perspective here and people know I dislike Apple quite a bit as a company.
Visual Studio from Microsoft is similar to Xcode really for application development. It costs from several hundred bucks to a couple of grand. It is probably by far the biggest and preferred environment for developing applications for Windows and it costs quite a bit of money.
Xcode on the other hand is great environment along with Interface Builder and now it's even better combining the both in one package.. It probably costs them a lot more in resources to build this and $4.99 for those who are not on Apple Developer's subscription is a fair thing.
If they were charging for a version where you still have an Apple Developer subscription but you have to pay them $5, now that would be something to shit on.
The fact that you have to pay $99 to be able to submit your apps and be an official apple platform developer for Mac App Store and again $99 for an iOS store and so on, should irk you MORE then the fact that Xcode, a very complex and great coding environment costs $5.
This is really a non-issue for those who are on Apple Developer Connection and let's face it, you want to build shit for OSX/App Store/iOS you need that subscription to submit apps. The only ones who would have to pay $5 are those who were building software for OSX outside of the Apple's new app eco-system and selling it that way without Apple getting any profits, but if you look at it, this audience of developers will be a dying breed anyways because Apple is killing the online model of software sales with open web and want everything to go through them for Mac platform and iOS and charge you $100 for each plus take profit from app sales.
The tools are irrelevant.. they can be $1000+.. but when I sell my software and make big profits that gets amortized. The more concerning issue is that now you have to pay someone 30%+ to sell your software. Funny how nobody complains about that from the same people complaining about $5 Xcode 4.
Talk about misplaced priorities.