Mac Developer Program Now Reflect iPhone Program

The Apple Mac Developer Program got a massive overhaul this week. The developer center when down for hours, and when it resurfaced, it brought quite a few changes indeed. The developer program has now been shifted to more directly reflect the iPhone development program. The site now mimics the iPhone dev center's look, and the pricing is now much more modest coming in at $99/year compared to the old starting price of $499/year. The program gets you early access to OSX builds, tech support, and access to help video and forums. 

As great as this is for developers to have a richer, more affordable experience, I pray this isn't a herald of things to come for the Mac platform. The only other place we've seen this kind of model is with the iPhone closed ecosystem. I don't know what would happen to my brain if I were forced to buy from an app store for my computer, lest I jailbreak it. How stupid does that sound? Jailbreak my MacBook Pro. Ugh.

Are you a developer? What do you think of the changes?