• chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net
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      8 months ago

      So does altstore. With the core technology fees and application requirements, it is much much higher than the 99/yr developer fee.

      Also that’s besides the point. I’m trying to learn if the developer said they’d publish on the App Store, not the AltStore.

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        8 months ago

        I mean it’s not beside the point if the reason for not publishing on the App Store was money.

        I had no idea about Altstore going in, but looking into it it’s all done over Patreon, and I can’t find reference to any fees you mention. The most expensive Patreon tier for them is $8.50 per month, or $102 per year, however $3 (at an early bird rate) or $36 per year is enough to allow you to use 3rd party hosts for your app.

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          https://developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee

          Also worth noting, distribution on third party App Store does not exempt developers from the developer program fee — Developers must sign a separate agreement to opt into the new business terms.

          So, not only they are still responsible for the $99/yr fee, they’d need to sign a new agreement to opt into the new business terms, which has a separate additional fee schedule attached.

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        8 months ago

        Also that’s besides the point. I’m trying to learn if the developer said they’d publish on the App Store, not the AltStore.

        From what I see his fediverse accounts it doesn’t seem like it… there are multiple people asking him to publish on the App Store and he seems to be conveniently ignoring all of them.