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> For me though, the biggest surprise of the keynote is that only 4000 developers are out there. You mean, only 4000 developers were approved by Apple. Over 25
by rcoder 18y ago
> For me though, the biggest surprise of the keynote is that only 4000 developers are out there.
You mean, only 4000 developers were approved by Apple. Over 250K downloads of the SDK and 25K developer key registrations says to me that the bar is being set pretty high to qualify as an authorized iPhone dev shop.
- menloparkbum 18y agoThe bar isn't that high. I got approved, and I'm just some dude. I think much of it had to do with how soon you got into the approval queue.
- drawkbox 18y agoThe mac hardware to develop was a big limitation on large swaths of capable programmers. Recently two things, the iPhone SDK and Unity3D engine are Mac development environment only which really hurts. Do I need to get a mac just to develop for mac? I knew this was coming.