I received this email a few minutes ago:

Dear Registered iPhone Developer,

Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. We have received your enrollment request. As this time, the iPhone Developer Program is available to a limited number of developers and we plan to expand during the beta period. We will contact you again regarding your enrollment status at the appropriate time.

It seems to me if they were only opening it up to select people, they should have held off on the signup form until they were actually ready for people to sign up. I guess they have to wait to get our $99.

Update:
It sounds like it was either first-come or random. I guess we fail for now.

You probably all are aware that Apple released the iPhone SDK a couple of days ago.

We’ve played around with it and definitely intend on developing for it. Ryan and I are getting iPod Touches, and Jon already has his iPhone.

Sadly, we can’t say too much about the SDK itself, because the whole thing is under NDA. That’s right, even though anyone can download it and use it, nobody is allowed to talk about it.

Oh well, lawyers are such silly things.