> This makes me wonder how many people ponied up the $99/yr.
Probably not that many, but each developer gets 100 UDID to activate, and I've seen many adding random UDIDs on their accounts for people who wanted to install iOS5
> they would also prevent legitimate reviews at the same time.
There is no legitimate public review from a beta iOS device. Legitimate reviews from iOS-beta testing will be done directly to the developers, not via the AppStore.
Even worse, there appears to be at least one site that is selling access ($7) to beta iOS releases, which surely isn't allowed by the TOS: http:// iosactivations. com/
Right, if I remember properly when I downloaded it clearly said that the contents of iOS5 are confidential. That to me doesn't mean "blog it all over".
Yes, developers are supposedly bound by an NDA on matters of beta iOS versions.
However, I do not know if that NDA has clauses about adding random third-party UDIDs (though developer accounts have been banned for that in the past), and in any case it does not bind those getting their UDID added who do not own developer accounts.
I know of at least 5 people that have done this. Stupid thing is, if they had got together they could have done it for a 5th of the price and all got the same benefit!
Probably not that many, but each developer gets 100 UDID to activate, and I've seen many adding random UDIDs on their accounts for people who wanted to install iOS5
> they would also prevent legitimate reviews at the same time.
There is no legitimate public review from a beta iOS device. Legitimate reviews from iOS-beta testing will be done directly to the developers, not via the AppStore.