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Derbasti on Oct 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Serving at the Pleasure of the King

Really, you are paying for the privilege to be listed in the App Store and to be distributed to customers.

mcantelon on Oct 15, 2011 [–]

Unless you jailbreak, you can't even make your own app and have it run on your own phone without paying $99/year.

And as far as paying for the privilege of being including in the App Store, seems like the 30% cut Apple takes should more than cover that.

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