Did you read what he said? It doesn't matter when on the world he lives because his argument is based on a ratio, and that's invariant.

That people that can drop money on Apple hardware but can't afford $100 per year doesn't make sense, for the obvious reason that Apple hardware costs many times that.

Back when I was at school I developed some iOS apps, and the $100 was huge where I lived. That's literally 1/4 of minimum salary there. I worked the entire summer holiday to afford an old mac mini(which was really crap,but that was the minimum spec which could run Xcode), and then actually had to borrow money to pay the $100 fee. That's why I prefered android from the start - it was just easier to start developing, with much smaller fee and no membership required to actually deploy to Android devices.