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Has Apple ever released a Developer Edition product before?
by ukuina 3y ago
Has Apple ever released a Developer Edition product before?
- esskay 3y agoThey've had developer units but not a publicly released one as far as I know. When Apple TV was being developed they were handing them out to devs for free like they had millions they were trying to get rid of. I was a lowly single app creator and they happily sent me one. For the Intel to M1 migration they did something similar but required them to be returned this time, and limited which devs they sent them out to.
- MBCook 3y agoYes, sort of. The first Intel Mac and the first ARM Mac were DTKs: Developer Transition Kits. You’d buy them from Apple at a reduced price, could use them to get your software running, and then had to give them back when the real hardware was released. There was nothing similar for the watch, iPad, or iPhone though.
- junofan 3y agoYeah the Intel Macs. I think you had to return them?