This happens all of the time. Very common for Apple to reach out to the popular apps.
And if you aren't popular you can just goto WWDC where hundreds of engineers will quite happily talk through issues and give guidance on prerelease software.
And if you aren't popular you can just goto WWDC where hundreds of engineers will quite happily talk through issues and give guidance on prerelease software.
You have to be really popular for this to happen, or be the only adopter of a technology they're trying to push. Basically, the question you have to ask yourself is "could Apple showcase us at a keynote?" Of course, such arrangements have massive NDAs around them.
> if you aren't popular you can just goto WWDC where hundreds of engineers will quite happily talk through issues and give guidance on prerelease software
Yes, but they aren't going to tell you what's wrong with your software…you'll need to go up to them at tell them "so and so doesn't work" and then they'll help you. I think it's unlikely that they'd just outright tell you that they made a special case for your software and you should get around to fixing it.