March 14, 2008 9:25 AM PDT

The Macalope senses a great disturbance in the Force

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Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software was just informed that he was denied acceptance into the initial round of iPhone developers (more reaction on his Twitter feed).

It's worth pointing out that this could just mean Apple's restricting admission to the beta program for reasons of scale, but let's hope this isn't a sign of things to come. Because these "things" would not be "good things".

UPDATE: David Chartier has more. Short story: it does appear that this is a temporary situation to keep the size of the beta program manageable. Probably could have been worded better or explained up front to reduce the "OMG! iPhone developer program iz exclusive country club!" factor (guilty as charged).

Mythical beast and rumormonger extraordinaire, the Macalope writes about all things Apple for the CNET Blog Network. Read more at The Macalope: An Apple blog. He is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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by thechristhomson March 14, 2008 9:45 AM PDT
My prediction for the SDK announcement was that Apple was going to say something that everyone wouldn't like. They'd screw up. They've screwed up in some way in ALL the keynotes mentioning the iPhone or iPod touch (and the screwing up has to do with those devices). I knew that'd think up a way to screw up the SDK. It's sad... but it's true.
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by gmsquires March 14, 2008 12:29 PM PDT
The Macalope's compatriot, Mssr Gruber of Daring Fireball, has also commented on this issue. It appears many potential developers got the same message, which is about as clear as mud and prone to misinterpretation. It appears Apple is sorting through the requests and, 1. just hasn't got to the point of approving the developer status and providing a certificate, "or" 2. may be restricting the number of people during the Beta period. Mssr Gruber has requested anyone that has received approval and a certificate to contact him, discretion will be observed, to attempt to clear this up.

It more sounds or appears that whomever wrote that gawdawful email was less than tactful or literate in explaining what is going on.
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by newbill123 March 14, 2008 12:57 PM PDT
Speaking as a Select developer in the Apple Developer Connection, I was astonished this division even existed between two Apple product lines in their corporate developer program. It wasn't called the Macintosh Developer Connection, and finding documentation on writing web apps for the iPhone could easily be done with a free ADC account before the iPhone 2.0 software made it's debut. As a person who pays $500 per year, I mistakenly thought that I'd already been accepted into Apple's corporate developer program and had put my money where my mouth was. Nope.

Apple has known that non-developers will pay to get pre-release software (from System 7 to Mac OS X Developer Previews and betas). I think that many of the people signing up for developer accounts are in this category of curious power user who can throw away $100 to be the first on their block to iPhone software 2,0. Sure, Apple is happy to take their $100 and tout the amazing developer interest in the iPhone platform. But I bet that many of these enthusiastic power users won't actually develop software for the iPhone.

Let's hope that come WWDC Apple won't be embarrassed by the number of registrants whose participation in the iPhone Developer Program failed to realized products.
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by ripragged March 14, 2008 8:59 PM PDT
A couple of "rejection" letters were posted around and about the forums. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the sky isn't falling, although the letter was a POS.

Apple should be giving a little more and better information than that. plsslng off that many people in one fell swoop is not good PR. The pot-stirring Apple bashers (InformationWeek) are just laying in wait for anything remotely like a boo-boo.
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by gmsquires March 18, 2008 8:29 AM PDT
Check out Gruber's Daring Fireball blog for 3/17/08 on this issue. Seems nobody has been accepted yet, and everyone has received the letter from Apple. Only those that are the "in" group that appeared on stage for the announcement of the SDK, and a few others Apple has had testing the beta SDK with the as yet unreleased version 2.0 of the iPhone OS are doing the prep work getting it ready to realease and accept the "teaming hordes" into the program. The ver 2.0 OS won't be released until June.
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