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First iPhone Developer Acceptance and Rejection Letters...

Friday March 14, 2008 11:32 am PDT by Arnold Kim
The early acceptance and rejection letters are arriving to developers who applied for the iPhone Developer Program ($99/year). More rejection than acceptance it seems. Many developers received the following non-acceptance email from Apple:

Dear Registered iPhone Developer,

Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. We have received your enrollment request. As this time, the iPhone Developer Program is available to a limited number of developers and we plan to expand during the beta period. We will contact you again regarding your enrollment status at the appropriate time.

Thank you for applying.

Best regards,

iPhone Developer Program


The $99/year iPhone Developer program comes with the beta iPhone Firmware and allows developers to install their applications onto the iPhone itself, rather than just onto the emulator. Apple is expected to open up the program to all comers after June, but in the meanwhile is only open to a "limited" number of developers.

Update: Despite some circulating theories, not every developer who has applied has been "rejected". Besides, this limited acceptance is only during the "beta" period which lasts until June. Past that, it's believed that all applicants will be accepted.
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yoman
Posted: 55 months ago
It always sucks to be rejected.
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himansk
Posted: 55 months ago
Did anybody get accepted yet? could you post what information you received in the email?
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quinney
Posted: 55 months ago
that sounds like more of an acknowledgement than a rejection,
unless the absence of acceptance is the same as rejection
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davidjearly
Posted: 55 months ago
This is the non-acceptance email I received for being outside the US.


Dear Registered iPhone Developer,

Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. We have received your enrollment request. At this time, the iPhone Developer Program is only available in the US and will expand to other countries during the beta period. We will contact you again regarding your enrollment status at the appropriate time.

Thank you for applying.

Best regards,

iPhone Developer Program

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daveschroeder
Posted: 55 months ago
Please note that this is ONLY for the early/beta programs. This doesn't have anything to do with application acceptance/rejection, or whether particular developers will be "allowed" to develop for iPhone.

Apple always stated that the early (pre-June) programs would only be available to a small number of select developers and enterprise customers.
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Peace
Posted: 55 months ago
It looks like Apple is going with Developers that have actually written code for Mac's before. I received a rejection email also and I just do consulting and no actual code writing. So.

Oh Well.
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chillywilly
Posted: 55 months ago
So are these rejections for anyone that downloaded the SDK or for those that actually paid the $99 or $299 to obtain a certificate?
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rednic
Posted: 55 months ago
My app is supposed to be demoed at an apple store a week monday, wonder if we get one?


Nic
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rendezvouscp
Posted: 55 months ago
These are regarding being accepted to pay for the early firmware. I myself received a rejection letter and believe it's for the reason Peace cited.
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Peace
Posted: 55 months ago

So are these rejections for anyone that downloaded the SDK or for those that actually paid the $99 or $299 to obtain a certificate?


Nobody has paid anything. If you are "chosen" then you pay the annual $99 Dev program fee.
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