AND - what does it cost to buy into the Apple dev systems?
Well, they just introduced some new equipment.
$5000 for the monitor and $999 for the stand, or if you have your own stand the Vesa adapter is a mere $200.
The New Big box can support up to 8 of those monitors, can I sign you up?
If you already have a Mac, nothing to start. If you get to the point you want to publish your app in the AppStore, then it’s $100/year.
Hardware or XCode, as noted XCode is free until you want to distribute apps.
I didn’t like it much. It’s ok. Of course I was using Objective-C and that sucked big time.