alt Hacker News> I don’t imagine Apple makes a substantial amount of money from $99/year developer subscriptions. The App Store is another story of course.
It has a chilling effect on releasing free apps.
It's going to be an interesting time soon, when even your dog will have a vibecoded app he'll want you to use.
I'm not saying it's good or that I like it, I just don't think Apple is doing it for the sake of developer subscription revenue, it's not enough revenue.
(To be clear, my position is that most people should probably turn off Gatekeeper and then developers don't have to pay Apple anything, unless they're making very mainstream software which probably generates revenue anyway.)