Hacker News Reader

Haha, good luck with that.

They gave people free iMacs with the last DTK and still didn't get a ton of them returned. Instead, they flooded the eBay market.

View on HN

Those people may lose membership in Developer Program. Also, DTK will become less and less functional as it’s not supported by OS updates. But not a very strong incentive over laziness for someone who isn’t actually a developer.

Again, I'll point to the fact that even with an iMac for turning in an Intel DTK, Intel DTKs flooded the second-hand market for a while.

I turned my Intel DTK in, so I'm not sure whether Apple took away their dev access but it clearly wasn't a super effective deterrent.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com