Apple Offers Expedited Apple Watch Order Lottery To Developers

An anonymous reader writes: Apple is sending out invites to random registered developers, giving them the chance to buy an Apple Watch with guaranteed delivery by the end of the month. "Special Opportunity for an Expedited Apple Watch Order," the invite email states. "We want to help give Apple developers the opportunity to test their WatchKit apps on Apple Watch as soon as it is available. You have the chance to purchase one (1) Apple Watch Sport with 42mm Silver Aluminum Case and Blue Sport Band that's guaranteed to ship by April 28, 2015."

Comments

A very good idea...

[SuperKendall]

If you want useful apps that work well, you WANT developers to be the first to get watches, so they can test applications to see how they behave in real life.

It's not going to be very many compared to the total sold, and all indications are the one they are selling is one of the less popular models...

You might say, well anyone could jump the queue then buy buying a developer program membership. But it's not that easy; as the headline mentions it's a bit of f "lottery" - I'm an iOS developer, and I did not get an email about a launch watch purchase, nor did any of the other iOS developers I asked.

There've been many other products that developers had early access to, much less shipping on launch day access - so I don't see why there would be any fuss around this.