The Angry Drunk

Over at TUAW​.com they’re run­ning a story under the head­line “Are iPhone app devs get­ting a raw deal?” The gist of the post is that iPhone devs are pos­si­ble get­ting boned because Apple appar­ently won’t be cut­ting them a check until the developer’s cut of the rev­enue is at least $250.00 (this is based on a rumor, mind you). Here’s a par­tic­u­larly whiny quote from the story:

From the (indie) developer’s per­spec­tive, this stinks. They’ve already paid at least $99 just to par­tic­i­pâté, and now they have to wait until they make (poten­tially) hun­dreds of sales before they see a dime from Apple. Will the high bar­rier for entry dis­cour­age truly good app devel­op­ment? Or will it act like a cover charge to keep out the riffraff?

Gruber over at Daring Fireball has this to say:

If you’re think­ing in terms of a cou­ple hun­dred dol­lars, your app prob­a­bly isn’t even going to get listed in the App Store. The App Store isn’t going to be like VersionTracker or MacUpdate, where every piece of junk gets listed as it’s submitted.

I’d say John is cor­rect, but let’s go a little

Continue read­ing Mommy, Apple’s Being Mean Again