I recently got an email asking me to renew my developer account, and noticed that it implied that not only did I require the subscription to submit apps and test on real hardware, but to continue sales of existing apps.<\/p>\n
That means, when a developer subscription expires, their apps will be removed from sale.<\/p>\n
Anybody not making money, or just bored will not renew, and as a result thousands of (cr)Apps will disapear from the Appstore.<\/p>\n
This hasn\u2019t shown much yet as the store is still <1 year old, and only a few thousand select developers got accounts approved before the store opened. However, in the months following the opening a gold rush started and every man and his dog started making whatever they could to push out in hopes of a lucky strike.\nAfter July, I expect mostsy in August\/September a large number of these accounts will be up for renewel. I cant wait.\n\nI imagine the novelty of paying $99 a year in order to distribute free apps will have worn off. Also, anyone who has seen their sales drop so low they dont receive a payment will also wonder if they should renew. People who did it because it was new, for fun, during a gap year etc will all expire.\nI hear people saying, but wont it just fill up with new Apps from new accounts?\nI dont think so. The gold rush is over, the quality level has raised substantialy, and in order to sell an app you need to make a good one. There will no doubt be a constant influx of new developers, but I think it will decrease from the initial gold rush at the start. I also hope the new developers will be better, more experienced in coding and the quality level will continue to rise.\n\nIn short, I see good things for the Appstore. Less chaff, more wheat.\n\nGood for Apple, good for developers, and good for customers.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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