Posted on May 12, 2009 - by Eric

Iphone Developer Program Enrollment pt. 3

im too anal to let my name appear

It was time to test our prototype on the iDevice through Unity Remote and Apple still hasn’t responded to the past issue with them asking the wrong business papers. After consulting with the awesome Touch Arcade forum community, we decided to just register as an individual with the knowledge that you can still choose a company name to headline the seller info (see image provided by the nice folks at App Tech Studios).

It didn’t sit well with me having my name there since I wanted Cavalcade Games to be the only brand associated with our fine content. So in the personal info form I entered ‘Cavalcade’ as my first name and ‘Games’ as my last name. With all the billing info based on my bank account and addresses. This way, Cavalcade Games will be the only name seen in app’s metadata. Pretty clever, yeah?

Well, the plan backfired. Turns out Apple does use the personal name for the contract and presumably it will be the name on the earnings check. Its just a minor inconvenience since we can either email apple for changes, continue to wait for APPLE’s email or change/create registered business name to Cavalcade Games (this is just a brand name for the company, where all game products go.)

I hope this experience will be helpful to any future developer that is as brand sensitive as me. Back to work for us, but now we are officially enrolled as Iphone developers and can test our prototypes on the device itself. And with the OS 3 mandatory requirement just went in effect, all is not a total waste.