Mac mini DTKs have to be returned by March 31, credit now $500

Apple giveth and Apple taketh away. While there’s really no contesting Apple’s right to take back the Developer Transition Kits or DTKs it sold to developers last year, developers were a bit taken aback by what Apple was giving them in return. Apple did finally reconsider but it seems that its higher offer for returning the historic DTK wasn’t going to be applied equally in all countries where the kits were distributed.

Just like when it switched from PowerPC to Intel processor in 2005, Apple provided a Developer Transition Kit to help Mac developers prepare their software for the new ARM processor architecture.

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