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I don't understand, if all of the fees are waived indefinitely, why even mention them? Why even have them? If the plan is to waive fees until RIM gets market share, will the fees really matter at that point?

All it does is make developers nervous that they might be locked into paying money in the future. Just do like Google and charge developers a token fee (to verify identity and intent, I'm guessing) right from the beginning.

If the goal is to lower the barriers to developer adoption, a $25 fee isn't going to stop anyone like the threat of a $200 fee in the future will.




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