This report make me mad, they're blaming jailbreaking for piracy, when cydia specifically warns you against it
Because on PC they make Ad Revenue from their website. Something they can't make if they put it on the App Store. As well as this it costs money for the iOS SDK (I think)Chaz. said:its free on pc, so why not on ipod?
You can have ads in iPhone games. But yeah, it costs $99 for a year's subscription to the "iPhone Developer's Program" i.e. access to SDK and ability to submit apps to App Store. Not a fortune for larger companies. But when they CAN charge money, and people will pay, they may as well. They gain little from offering it for free, except perhaps building a name for the company, before unleashing some paid apps which people may then buy because they enjoyed the free ones.Jamstruth said:Because on PC they make Ad Revenue from their website. Something they can't make if they put it on the App Store. As well as this it costs money for the iOS SDK (I think)Chaz. said:its free on pc, so why not on ipod?
spinal_cord said:I for one am more than happy to pay for ANY app that is good enough to use.
Jamstruth said:Just watched the report. They say its a taboo practice. Was this before or after that DMCA ruling making jailbreaks legal as long as there's no piracy? Did they do any research showing that the iPhone Dev team among others who do the hacking don't support hacking and only want to be able to avoid the Apple control?