{"id":1082,"date":"2015-06-08T22:02:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T21:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:14","slug":"apple-developer-program-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2015\/06\/08\/apple-developer-program-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Developer Program improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has made some big changes to their developer programs, which I think are a big improvement:<\/p>\n<p>1) You can now apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/xcode\/\">develop and deploy to your own iOS\u00c2\u00a0device<\/a> without a program membership. (Possibly only with Xcode 7, I&#8217;m not perfectly clear yet). This is a big win for casual developers and people just getting started.<\/p>\n<p>2) There is now a <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/support\/transition\/\">single developer program combining iOS and OS X<\/a> which is much simpler and cuts the price in half if you subscribe to both<\/p>\n<p>3) The safari extension program is being merged in. This possibly isn&#8217;t so great if you were solely doing safari extensions, because now you may need to pay. But if you are doing other development anyway, then it&#8217;s a simplified approach (only one program to deal with and remember to renew)<\/p>\n<p>Overall big changes and a strong improvement in most areas.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also hopeful about the new OS versions too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has made some big changes to their developer programs, which I think are a big improvement: 1) You can now apparently develop and deploy to your own iOS\u00c2\u00a0device without a program membership. (Possibly only with Xcode 7, I&#8217;m not perfectly clear yet). This is a big win for casual developers and people just getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-macintosh","category-writing-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}