Apple’s App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?

Apple’s Developer Academy in Detroit has spent roughly $30 million over four years training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps, but not everyone lands coding jobs right away, according to a WIRED story published this week.

The program launched in 2021 as part of Apple’s $200 million response to the Black Lives Matter protests and costs an estimated $20,000 per student — nearly twice what state and local governments budget for community colleges. About 600 students have…