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Is $5 for Apple's Xcode fair?

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Posted Mar 10 2011 01:05 PM
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Xcode is great development environment, it's free, and it's been getting better with each release. Now Apple has released Xcode 4.0 but it costs $5 off the App Store. From free to $5, is that right?

UPDATE: Just got a lot of friendly tweets advising that iOS and MacDev subscribers have access to it as part of their subscription. My bad on that.

Poll: Is $5 for Apple's Xcode fair? (6 members have cast votes )

$5 for Xcode, right or wrong?

  1. No - it was free and should still be free (2 votes [33.33%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 33.33%

  2. Yes - it's worth every penny! (4 votes [66.67%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 66.67%

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 : Mar 10 2011 01:08 PM
I say free to subscribers, charged to everyone else. There is no dispute that the tool is a great deal and deserves a revenue stream. I just think if I pay to be a developer that this is part of that payment.
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Posted Mar 10 2011 01:12 PM

@pzearfoss - just let me know that Xcode is free to subscribers. Well my access wasn't working and I just assumed I had to buy it. My bad assumption, my lost $5.00.
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Posted May 05 2011 03:49 AM

I think it must be free bacause now with Apple we pay for everything before even earning money : buy an iPhone/Mac, buy soft, register for a dev account, ...
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Posted May 06 2011 06:26 AM

Considering that in the past you had to pay a rather larger amount of money to be part of the Apple Development program to get access to special XCode releases, I think this is a bargain.
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