On: JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps

You don't, but enrolling in any kind of developer program, or buying any kind of developer software, is going to cost north of $99 a year, which any developer hoping to make even that amount of money will do.

The situation for iPhone developers have a lot of well publicized flaws, but the cost of participating in the developer program (which includes development software and publishing in the App Store) is not one of them.

You don't need to enroll in a dev program. You can develop .NET apps with freely available tools if you don't want to spend money on Visual Studio.

And jwz isn't trying to make money--he just wants to make his apps available for others to use.

Considering the prevalence of todo-list and flashlight apps, it doesn't seem like the $99 is holding anybody back.

I develop .NET I can use notepad and csc for free or I can buy tools from MS that save me time. Halfway house is SharpDevelop which is free but not as good as Visual Studio. I don't mind paying for cool tools but it sucks to have to pay to release software.