The Apple thread

[Cloudane]

I have mixed feelings about the $99.... it'll put a lot of people off, but at the same time it'll keep a lot of the quick and dirty crap out. And it's better than I thought would be the answer i.e. apps only sold through iTunes.

[matt]

Sure, I'd rather not spend $99 but of course I'm going to.

[ravuya]

Is it $99 an app, or is it $99 per developer?

[Kemper_Boyd]

During the beta iPhone SDK program, a limited number of developers will be accepted into Apple’s new iPhone Developer Program and offered the ability to get code onto iPhones for testing. The Standard Program costs $99 (US) per year and gives members an iPhone SDK and development tools; access to pre-release iPhone software; technical support; the ability to get code onto iPhones for testing; and distribution of applications via the new App Store. The Enterprise Program costs $299 (US) per year.

So $99 per developer per year.

[fritx]

Edit: sorry double post

[fritx]

Trying to download the SDK now with no success so far Seems to be a failure at dsauthweb.corp.apple.com.
Anyone else having this problem?

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

Edit: sorry double post

I downloaded a .dmg image but it only seems to be just over 1Mb in size so I suspect it's not downloaded it correctly?

[matt]

The download site has been overwhelmed since the keynote

[Rod_S]

I downloaded a .dmg image but it only seems to be just over 1Mb in size so I suspect it's not downloaded it correctly?

It's 2.5GB.

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

I downloaded a .dmg image but it only seems to be just over 1Mb in size so I suspect it's not downloaded it correctly?

It's 2.5GB.

Ah. Thought it seemed a bit small.

[fritx]

Ace, I've got registered and downloading the noo

[kalmar]

It's going to be a bit of an impatient wait for the 2.0.x firmware to come out, to actually use the thing

[axel000]

Can't wait to see some llamasoft games go up, need to pick up an iPhone very soon, as soon as Gridrunner++ hits

A 30% royatly to Apple doesn't seem too bad on the face of things, 70% to the DEV is better than many other arrangements right ?

Any word on set pricing or can you set your own price ?

[kalmar]

Can't wait to see some llamasoft games go up, need to pick up an iPhone very soon, as soon as Gridrunner++ hits

A 30% royatly to Apple doesn't seem too bad on the face of things, 70% to the DEV is better than many other arrangements right ?

Any word on set pricing or can you set your own price ?

Set your own price. The 30% does indeed seem pretty fair (especially to small developers) in exchange for listing in the one-stop-shop of iTunes. I was expecting at least a listing fee, to cover time spent checking the content and so on. Going to be a bit different from XBLA innit?

I'm going to try to get an iPhone tomorrow

[Gus]

Anyone tried to do anything yet? I've compiled up a bunch of the sample code demos, but can't get any of the GL demos to run. They all say something along the lines of "can't run this in the simulator, connect a device to run it", but of course you can only run software on the device if you've subscribed to one of the developer programs (standard & enterprise) & it seems to be saying that they're only available to developers in the US, with the rest of the world following over the next few months. Doh!


Guy

P.S. I could be way off, I'm not known for my patience at actually reading stuff through :-)