Why Apple did what they did - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
Apr 10, 2010
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"It would be a better post if you explained how each piece of your advice would help the situation for apple.
For example - the $100 per year fee means that a lot of the most useless apps will disappear from the store if their authors don't want to keep paying for them to exist."
- Robin Barooah