narwhal

My delay was I'm switching from Cocoa to Catalyst for my macOS apps. It's a lot of work. I think I've figured everything out now, but the learning curve is long. For one thing, Xcode 12 GUI doesn't support building for both macOS 10.15 (Intel) and 11 (Intel and M1), you need to tweak the project in a text editor. For another, you need to implement the old Mac help system in your Catalyst apps, including Help Indexer, and there's zero support for it in Xcode. Another thing is, Apple didn't post sample code showing how to implement menus on Catalyst apps, so it's a guessing game getting it working. There's zero sample code for the transition -- which is insane. Some frameworks simply don't work in Catalyst apps: you can forget about StoreKit and GameKit, they don't work on M1. There's more, I could make a longer list, but now that I've figured everything out, I'm busy releasing apps.

scruffysandra said:

I don't get it.  These developers LEASED it for $500, agreeing to the requirement to return the hardware.   Apple shouldn't have had to give a credit to get it back.  If anything, there should have been a penalty for NOT returning it.

The lease ended early. If you leased a car, and the owner took it back halfway through the lease, wouldn't you expect to be compensated?

Xed said:

Apple only ever gets money from you once every 5 years? If I were Apple I wouldn't give you a fucking dime back for your Mac mini lease.

Apple gets money from my apps every single day, possibly every hour of every day.

MplsP said:

I wasn't aware that the A12 Minis were leased, but essentially you are charging close to the price of a new computer ($500 vs $700) for one year's worth of use...

And Apple is asking for them back early, 7 months into the lease. Apple should sell devs a replacement Mac mini M1 16 GB at a discount (to compensate for the shortened lease) BEFORE requiring the DTKs be sent back.

I’m surprised Apple announced this on a Wednesday. This is the type of news a government or unscrupulous corporation announces Friday evening before a long weekend.