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Apple has released dev kits before. Most recently the apple silicon devkits. Those have pretty much universally been explicit and have come with a requirement
by monocasa 3y ago
Apple has released dev kits before. Most recently the apple silicon devkits. Those have pretty much universally been explicit and have come with a requirement to return the devkits once consumer hardware capable of being development hardware is released.
They were hoping for consumer (or industry) acceptance. They visibly did not get that.
- sneak 3y agoIt doesn’t even support IMAP email credential payloads in provisioning profiles. This is some of the bare minimum required for enterprise use. I haven’t tried to MDM one yet. I don’t even know how you’d supervise one without a port to connect it to AC2. It’s quite clearly not designed for mainstream use without enterprise features or a consumer price point. Remember also that hardware pipelines are 2-3 years long. They almost certainly are well into the design of the consumer model that will come out in 18-24 months. By that time, there will be many apps available for them because of the AVP1 being in the hands of tens of thousands of developers for 12+ months.
- monocasa 3y agoExcept all of their previous developer kits have been about the same cost as the consumer version. Intel DTK - $999 Apple Silicon DTK - $500 iPhone - No DTK, just released without third party native apps at all. That combined with how Apple regularly whiffs enterprise support and the fact that it sits right in the middle of their current display prices looks very much like they intended it to be a true consumer/industry release.