Apple Allowing Developers Who Won Apple TV Lottery to Place Orders

[blackcrayon]

When I looked at the terms I believe it required an Enterprise Developer account ($299, not the $99 one) so that would knock a few less serious folks out. Plus the prioritized based on developers with Apps already published in the store...

It didn't - it only required the $99 account. Actually I thought the opposite - the vast majority of serious "consumer TV app" developers are going to be your $99 variety. Enterprise developers are doing in-house stuff for businesses and don't even have App Store apps. (Some companies, like the one I worked for, have both types of accounts for that reason).

 

[D.T.]

For owners of the current Apple TV who anticipate upgrading, ready yourself for the new hardware by propping your device up on a few coins and talking to your remote.

I've been doing that for the past year or so.




I also chat with the toaster.

 

[fishkorp]

Got my invite as well. Can't wait. Have a few ideas I'd love to see play out on the TV.

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

Better deal than when they charged us a $1000 for the Intel test machines in a G5 case then they became big paper weights when the new OS launched. They did send us a Intel iMac for the trouble but we still had to drop plenty of change on the machines.

 

[ChrisCW11]

Apple stealing One Plus style of marketing now too?

 

[blackcrayon]

Apple stealing One Plus style of marketing now too?

Giving away (virtually) free developer kits to is some kind of stolen marketing ploy now?

 

[koolaid-drinker]

I wonder which version that we will be receiving?

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

Got mine... ordered and ready to develop my next greatest fart sound invention.

Too bad Apple banned those apps years ago.

From the developer guidelines:

2.11 – Apps that duplicate Apps already in the App Store may be rejected, particularly if there are many of them, such as fart, burp, flashlight, and Kama Sutra Apps

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

Apple stealing One Plus style of marketing now too?

You think it's marketing to give developers free stuff?

Apple has done this long ago too. They gave free iMacs to all developers that ordered the Intel test machine years before One Plus (or Android) were around.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Fingers crossed I get my invite email. I've been playing with the SDK, it's pretty cool if a little overwhelming.

Oh? Anything cool you're able to tell us about it yet?

Is there an actual Siri API so that you can do TTS and/or STT? or is Apple still keeping Siri all to themselves?

 

[Smith288]

Too bad Apple banned those apps years ago.

From the developer guidelines:

It's all about creativity! We can be pretty wily folks.

 

[Shawn Parr]

I just have a standard developer account and i got an invite..

It didn't - it only required the $99 account. Actually I thought the opposite - the vast majority of serious "consumer TV app" developers are going to be your $99 variety. Enterprise developers are doing in-house stuff for businesses and don't even have App Store apps. (Some companies, like the one I worked for, have both types of accounts for that reason).

Obviously I was mistaken. I just glanced at it quickly knowing my free account wouldn't work. Must have misread/understood. Thanks!

 

[Jeremy1026]

Got mine. Got some decent ideas for a couple of party games that could be fun.

 

[jaybroni]

Has anyone received an email saying that they're NOT getting one? Looks like they're just sending the winners batch first.

 

[CodeSpyder]

I was selected! Cool beans!

 

[NMBob]

...with a $1 fee being charged to verify billing and shipping addresses.

??? If you've signed in with your Apple ID don't they know that already?

 

[chadwyk]

I got mine! If you have Gmail, check your spam folder! Gmail flagged mine because it came from a weird apple subdomain address.

 

[fishkorp]

...with a $1 fee being charged to verify billing and shipping addresses.

??? If you've signed in with your Apple ID don't they know that already?

Not necessarily. What if you've moved and haven't purchased anything since the move and didn't update your account? Then they'd be auto-shipping it to an address you no longer live at.

It's probably more for accounting/tax purposes on their end, but just phrasing it that way so you think you're getting something for "free." No matter what the reason, no one selected should be complaining about getting the dev kit for $1.

 

[Karma*Police]

I am excited for them to be released to the public. I will buy one right away. And a second for christmas probably. What I am hoping the most is that the homekit apps come out soon since they are supposed to leverage the TV as the Hub. I have stopped buying HUE lights and other Home Automation until it is clear what direction products are taking relative to HomeKit.

I read that Philips is readying a homekit compatible hub. Looking forward to that myself.

 

[cariacou]

Watch the 4 figures listings on eBay show up next week

 

[macduke]

I thought about doing this just to have it early but realized that there is no point as the streaming apps and App Store won't be working until it's available for sale. I also didn't want to take a spot away from another developer who could use it to build something cool.

 

[macUser2007]

I really hope for a functioning Put.io app.

Google Photos and Google Music would be really nice, too.

 

[LimeiBook86]

I got mine! If you have Gmail, check your spam folder! Gmail flagged mine because it came from a weird apple subdomain address.

Can you please note what email address it was coming from? I'll have to take a look, but searching may be quicker.

 

[rockstarjoe]

I got mine! I was actually surprised as I never win anything. Very excited to start developing on tvOS!

 

[chadwyk]

Can you please note what email address it was coming from? I'll have to take a look, but searching may be quicker.

developer@insideapple.apple.com