I’m not Renewing Membership in the iPhone Developer Program

I bet this guy had couple of terrible apps on the appstore which didn't made him the moolah he was hoping for and now he is blaming it on apple and trying to get traffic on his website by being dramatic. .

This appstore thing has been discussed on HN so many times, and I just cannot believe how some developers are blaming Apple for everything. I know their needs to be improvements in the appstore. I also know apple is screwing up at some fronts but overall appstore rocks. People need to be critical about bad things but then they should give credit where it is due.

Congrats, would you like a cookie?

This article just says the same things that have been said many times, that Apple has been annoying with their control of the App Store, it doesn't really bring anything new to the conversation at all.

I'm pondering the same question. The thing is, I like the platform (as I think do most developers) and most apps I make are for my own use first and selling them is a secondary consideration. Still, I'm not sure it's worth the $99/year just for the privilege of being able to create and install apps on my own device. OTOH I'm hesitant to switch to Android or another platform mainly because I don't want another device. I know other developers are hesitant to switch because of a smaller potential market, but remember that developers are the lifeblood of any platform so it will only gain traction if more developers adopt it.