Like someone else commented, the "gold rush" is over. Who cares? iOS devices are VERY well established at this point, with many millions in active use at any given time. If you truly have something worthwhile to code to run on the iPhone or iPad, I would think you'd still go on and do it? Anything significant gets noticed not because of it coming up in searches from App Store browsing, but because people get referred specifically to it by name.

(For example, I recently bought a couple of EcoBee smart thermostats for my house. Turns out they have an iOS app to control them. The instructions for the thermostat told me what to key into an App Store search to find the app and install it, so I did. The number of other apps cluttering up the store had no bearing on finding it successfully.)

The devs who are complaining are probably the people just wanting to write some random game or utility, without much regard for how many others are out there serving a similar purpose, and getting upset that it doesn't pay like full-time employment anymore. Yep ... it won't!

From several posts up this thread-

"The irony of course is that inflation has devalued what's left to the point where it actually makes some sense to bring some of those larger bills back."

My friend's dad tried to buy a $45,000 car in cash. The dealership had no process for it because nobody had ever tried it before. They ended up creating a $45k repair bill in the maintenance department.

This is a solution in search of a problem.

I could see it being useful to load munitions at a combat base. But our bases have proven to be quite safe.

$30,000 in 20s will fit in a small shopping bag.

Apparently you don't know what a "sniper" is.

Have you actually called the cops for that? I'll bet $100 you haven't.

Most retail establishments won't even accept a $100. I'm not seeing the need for a bigger denomination, which nobody would accept.

Inflation has been at historic lows for 30 years. 100 bucks is still a lot of money.

Congrats. This is the dumbest comment I've seen all week. And there are a lot of really dumb comments on this site.

This is meant to be used inside bases. How many Americans have been killed by snipers while inside their bases recently?

Bill-denomination is something that's interested me for awhile actually; it seems from my limited view of time like in the United States, the $20 has been the standard bill for 30+ years.

As far back as I can remember, $20 has been the denomination dispensed by nearly all ATMs. A handful of ATMs might mix in $50 or $100 bills for larger total amounts (Wells Fargo has some that do $20s and $50s, but most of theirs still just do $20s), and there were some ATMs outside the student union that used to dispense $5 bills (this was at UNLV in the early '90s), but most of the time, you'll get $20s.

Those golf courses are maintained by greens fees, not taxpayer money.

Here in the real world, the Secretary of Defense is proposing budget cuts.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/defense-secretary-chuck-hagel-to-recommend-deep-budget-cuts-targeting-pay-benefits/

The DOD has put a lot of effort into fuel efficiency and renewable energy. You have no idea what you're talking about.

Your cost estimate only only off by one or two orders of magnitude.