Anyone Notified of Developer Kit Selection?

I haven't gotten any email at all, either yes or no.

We have published apps, but we transfer them to clients iTunes connects once they are completed, so our own account shows no apps. Hopefully the entire history of published apps count and not just the current catalog. 😕

Github it...maybe someone will test for you?

Thats odd. Still nothing for me.

not this developer from California, I got the Dear Developer rejection.

For a company thats richer than dirt, it would have been a nice touch to reward developers, like Google does.

I wasn't aware these were being given away, I appled on the assumption I'd need to pay the going price, just get it sooner.

Nothing for me yet either. On west coast 6:30PM and no email at all even though I submitted same hour.

I think what Apple is doing is sending out email to Dev's with Apps on the App store. Both selection and rejection emails.

They will more than likely send out rejection email to Dev's without Apps on the App store tomorrow.

Has anybody without an App receive a rejection yet ?

I have an app on the app store :\

Hmm. Just got the rejection notice. It sort of takes the wind out of my sails for working on the tvOS version of my app. Guess I'll just have to stick with the simulator. Anyone out there with internet-connected lightbulbs (and who won the developer kit) interested in beta testing? My app is called Lightbow, one of the leading iOS apps for controlling Philips hue, LIFX, and Belkin WeMo lighting hardware. It has everything from wakeup alarms, to party presets, to dozens of profesisonally-designed lighting animations on various themes like Fireworks, Christmas, and Space. It's also the only app that really gives you full control over creating your own custom animations. Here's the App Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lightbow-for-philips-hue-lifx/id695235159?mt=8

I was really looking forward to bringing my app to the TV, since that's a natural place to let everyone set up and play with lighting presets in their homes. Lightbow has been on the App Store for two years with at least four stars, and updates averaging out to one every 20 days. It's localized to over 15 languages. It doesn't make crazy money, but it pays the mortgage. I wonder what metrics they used for selecting the winners. My theory—since the new tvOS doesn't really allow local storage, I'll bet they screened out apps that had yet to utilize CloudKit, since that'll be important for the new OS. It was something I was planning for a future release, but wasn't ready to pull the trigger just yet. Support for tvOS was going to be a natural launch point for cloud support, but without hardware to test on, I'm worried about the risk.

I could test this out, I should get my Apple TV developer kit on Thursday, and I have Phillips hue as well.

We're in the same situation.

btw I just found the rejection notice in my mailbox 😟

Bummer as we've just got a customer request to do a PoC on the AppleTV.

Didn't get picked either. Same as some others, I build and then transfer to the client's iTunes account, so I'm not sure what shows up against my own account. But then my client is only the world's third biggest [redacted] in the world, so I can see Apple might not wnat them on the TVApp Store.. Ho hum.

Also, I entered ready to pay for it the moment it opened. I'm sure there was a bit of a late rush once people realised it was "FREE"

Got an email "late" last night (19:28). Got selected for one. Hope my TV arrives before the AppleTV or I'l have to wait another day or two to start testing...

Oh I've forgot. For France. My personal developmer account is empty of app but I joined in an out of businesses Team account, so the apps I worked for don't appear in my personal account.

I haven't received neither a confirmation nor rejection at this point (yes, I checked the spam folder). Anyone else? I'd assume they'd inform everyone at roughly the same time?

Im sure the remote will work perfect, its not easy to use the remote in the simulater.