TOKYO (MacHouse) – Last January, Apple, Inc. (hereby, Apple) started its Mac App Store, where the company says that software developers can “reach millions of users around the world.” It sounds like Apple offers an easy and exciting solution to independent software developers. Seeing it from the view point of software developers, Apple calls this online distribution system Mac Developer Program.
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So what do we know about Mac Developer Program? Reading publicly accessible web pages, you will learn that
– program enrollment fee is $99
– Apple will take 30% of every software sale
– the Mac App Store is open to people in 90 countries
There is an untold version of the Mac Developer Program that you will never learn by accessing publicly accessible Apple’s web pages. In fact, one of the elements in the list above may not even be correct. Continue reading










