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[+Mephistopheles]

Xcode 4.1 now free, available for your Lion development pleasure

For all of the developers who were wondering where Xcode 4.1 was this morning, it was just taking a short time out. It's now available for download in both the Mac App Store and through the regular developer channels.

Xcode formerly had a $4.99 price tag for non-developers; it's now available as a free download. Get to work writing those Lion apps, folks!

Source: TUAW

[Shaun]

Interesting

[+Elliott]

I like the style of installer they used for it.

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[.Neo]

Why Apple suddenly started asking money for this thing in the first place is still beyond me.

[BletchleyPark]

Free, then 4.99 then free again... make up your mind Apple!!

[Xtreme $niper]

Wow... I just saved 5 bucks for waiting. Weird.

[Mr Nom Nom's]

.Neo, on 20 July 2011 - 16:16, said:

Why Apple suddenly started asking money for this thing in the first place is still beyond me.

Accounting? testing the waters whether people are prepared to pay? personally they should give it away for free but charge for a premium support.

[iKenndac]

Mr Nom Nom's, on 20 July 2011 - 16:51, said:

Personally they should give it away for free but charge for a premium support.

They do. If you're a paid Mac (or iOS) developer, you get a number of support incidents each year. Otherwise, no support.

[Mr Nom Nom's]

iKenndac, on 20 July 2011 - 16:58, said:

They do. If you're a paid Mac (or iOS) developer, you get a number of support incidents each year. Otherwise, no support.

Sorry I meant in terms of "I've found a bug, please fix it" and Apple has a dedicated engineer to actually fix the bug in the operating system.

[what]

Mr Nom Nom's, on 20 July 2011 - 16:59, said:

Sorry I meant in terms of "I've found a bug, please fix it" and Apple has a dedicated engineer to actually fix the bug in the operating system.

http://www.apple.com...ack/macosx.html

[.Neo]

Mr Nom Nom's, on 20 July 2011 - 16:51, said:

Accounting? testing the waters whether people are prepared to pay? personally they should give it away for free but charge for a premium support.

Yeah, see I stopped believing the whole accounting thing when Apple first said the same thing about major iOS updates for the iPod touch, but then suddenly started giving those away for free as well...

[roadwarrior]

.Neo, on 20 July 2011 - 17:37, said:

Yeah, see I stopped believing the whole accounting thing when Apple first said the same thing about major iOS updates for the iPod touch, but then suddenly started giving those away for free as well...

That is because the rules relating to that changed between when that first iPod touch update was released and when the later ones were released.

Still doesn't explain the situation with Xcode though.


This article explains it pretty well: http://arstechnica.c...-update-fee.ars

[.Neo]

roadwarrior, on 20 July 2011 - 17:41, said:

Still doesn't explain the situation with Xcode though.

Exactly.

[Rudy]

Xcode has always been free with OSX, what they don't include is a free upgrade to the NEXT major version (Snow Leopard came with 3.x so 4.x cost money for SL, Lion came with 4.1 so 5.x will cost money for Lion)

[roadwarrior]

Rudy, on 20 July 2011 - 18:23, said:

Xcode has always been free with OSX, what they don't include is a free upgrade to the NEXT major version (Snow Leopard came with 3.x so 4.x cost money for SL, Lion came with 4.1 so 5.x will cost money for Lion)

Actually, up until recently, you could always download the latest version of Xcode from Apple's developer site for free, even if you were only registered for a free developer account.

Oh, and Happy Birthday!!