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From: Ian Piper on 7 Feb 2010 07:37 On 2010-02-06 12:37:23 +0000, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) said: > I have had the free apple developer connection for a long time, and then > added the free iPhone developer account to it. As I haven't actually > produced any iPhone apps that was enough, you can release mac software > free. > > Anyway, with the iPad coming there are some bits of software I wouldn't > mind doing, and you can't get the pre-release SDK without joining the > paid for account so I thought I might as well join. > > I joined under my company name, So you fill in the forms, they send you > back an email to verify you name, all very normal, then when you hit > submit they say they will contact you. > > about 5 hours later they did, with a message (which turns out is their > standard message): > > Please fax the Certificate of Incorporation from Companies House of > identity for your business based on your company form. The fax number > for submission of this information is +1-408-974-1053. Yes, I had the same daft thing about faxing. I actually challenged it - I emailed scanned copies of the appropriate documents to them and they responded saying "no, it has to be faxed to this number. Take it or leave it". That's how it is when you have a monopoly I suppose. Irritating and gives Apple a bad name. I was tempted to leave it and join under my personal name, but for a variety of reasons it made more sense to join as my company, so I bit the bullet. Only took a couple of days to complete the whole process. Then, of course, you have the joy of creating ProvisioningProfiles for your applications. I'll leave you to discover that particular pleasure for yourself. BTW there is a chapter in my book on setting up your iPhone Developer account, creating your certificate and ProvisioningProfile and so on. Regards, Ian.
From: Ben Shimmin on 7 Feb 2010 08:10 Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)mac.com>: [...] <plug type="blatant"> > BTW there is a chapter in my book on setting up your iPhone Developer > account, creating your certificate and ProvisioningProfile and so on. </plug> b. --[only kidding] -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `It is like Swinburne sat down on his soul's darkest night and designed an organized sport.' -- David Foster Wallace, _Infinite Jest_, on American football
From: Steve Firth on 7 Feb 2010 09:55 Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)mac.com> wrote: > Yes, I had the same daft thing about faxing. I actually challenged it - > I emailed scanned copies of the appropriate documents to them and they > responded saying "no, it has to be faxed to this number. Take it or > leave it". That's how it is when you have a monopoly I suppose. > Irritating and gives Apple a bad name. <cough> Faxtastic. Print the document or scan it to PDF, email the PDf to faxtastic they fax it to the recipient. They also provide an incoming fax number if your ISP doesn't already provide you with one for free. Quite why sending a scanned document to a service to be forwarded to Apple would make it more legally binding is something that the Merkins can be left to puzzle over.
From: Ian Piper on 7 Feb 2010 10:16 On 2010-02-07 14:55:49 +0000, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) said: > Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> Yes, I had the same daft thing about faxing. I actually challenged it - >> I emailed scanned copies of the appropriate documents to them and they >> responded saying "no, it has to be faxed to this number. Take it or >> leave it". That's how it is when you have a monopoly I suppose. >> Irritating and gives Apple a bad name. > > <cough> > > Faxtastic. I didn't know about that service - thanks. Ian. -- Ian Piper Author of "Learn Xcode Tools for Mac OS X and iPhone Development", Apress, December 2009 Learn more here: http://learnxcodebook.com/� --�
From: Steve Firth on 7 Feb 2010 10:28
Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)mac.com> wrote: > I didn't know about that service - thanks. I've been using them ever since my Philips Crystal Fax decided to spontaneously combust. They have never failed to deliver a fax, provided that I make sure to set the sending email address to the correct details. I use my ISP's Fax to Mail Gateway for incoming. |