[1] https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/download.action?path=/...
Would've been nice if they'd done this from the start (says someone who just paid his registration fee last month solely for access to the new XCode beta/Swift) but better late than never. Maybe there was some strategic value in only letting paying devs have access it for the first month or so as the news settled in...
Hopefully you end up getting some value from your registration. You could always ask for a refund but I don't know if they would give it to you.
Probably true.
> Hopefully you end up getting some value from your registration.
Definitely got some value :) For one, I had the time to play around with it last month, that I don't have this month, so for that alone it was worth it. So not bitter about it!
Count yourself lucky, that's probably not going to last long. Xcode itself doesn't do any server side verification of your developer status to let itself run, so you'll be able to do everything aside from sign and sell apps.
Neat :)