Demo of Apple TV to other developers

Hi,


A group of local developers - the local Cocoaheads group - a group of Swift and Objective C developers - about 20 of them want to see an Apple TV. Am I able to show them the unit and software running, they can try the remote, as they are interested in developing for the unit? I thought I should ask as Apple clearly want developers to get excited about this unit and develop software, and this is not a public demonstration where a journo is going to judge or review the software without understanding what beta means. It goes without saying no photography or recording.


Cheers,

Peter Smith.

Answered by Pete in 66962022

I'll take no response as a "No". Cheers.

Accepted Answer

I'll take no response as a "No". Cheers.

In this thread https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/17982 Apple specifically mentioned sharing Apple TV dev kits as something they recommend, so I would think demoing to other developers would fall under the same thing (as long as you're all members of the developer program).

Hmm, I don't see that in there. I see them saying it is impossible to know how the remote works - even in the simulator - without having one which is true, and it also says you can't build without a devkit which is probably a QA measure - Watchkit got flooded with thousands of low quality apps which hasn't helped sales at all. But I don't see in there "share it around", even reading between the lines.

I believe the sharing admonition is regarding with registered developer program members.

Team members, etc. As for a user group for lack of a better term, what is there to demo?

The remote? Unless you have an app you're working on, there really isn't anything to

demo on the TvOS devkit. So, honestly, I don't see what good dragging your devkit

to a public meeting would do.


Also, most such groups are made up of people who aren't necessarily members of the

developer program so, the NDA regarding speaking or demoing publicly anything about

Apple Tv v4 would apply.

Wow, they deleted their comment suggesting it, and then deleted my post (this one: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/18066) pointing to the comment. So guess they went back on it. I now get a "Your content was rejected by a moderator. Please edit your content and resubmit it for approval."


That's messed up. It was weeks ago. Anyway, I guess they changed their minds.

Might have something to do with banging on iFixit for going public with a teardown of their kit...

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