Despite the many bugs and pitfalls that Corona has (and Coronium), I have enjoyed using the platform and BaaS for over a year now. I was contemplating just the other day to move over to React Native for my front end dev, and Firebase for my BaaS, both which are highly recommended and very easy to use and learn.
After seeing your announcement of wanting to charge $99 / year to remove the splash brand has finally pushed me over the line to make the swap. You guys need to understand something. There are two types of developers out there:
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Devs who code out of their garage on a very tight budget who want to create amazing apps
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Devs who have amazing apps out on the market who are making revenue.
Out of the two, who do you think can afford to pay the $99 / year? (on top of Hosting and on top of the Apple 99/year subscription). You are about to lose a very large % of customers, and are going to deter any new customers wanting to join your network with this new pricing “scheme”. The fact that this pricing model does not target new customers, or customers earning a certain revenue per year, is sad.
You have basically put up your middle finger to your entire loyal customer base.
Shame on you.