Full FeedApple kills the iPhone NDA
Apple has always been a secretive company, and their iPhone developer’s terms were no different: basically, any information that Apple provided about the SDK was confidential. Not only did this prevent most Open Source groups from working on iPhone apps, but it created a lot of bad publicity when Apple revealed that those who had applications rejected for inclusion in the iTunes store were forbidden from talking about that.
Earlier this month, Apple stated it would release developers from the NDA and post new, less restrictive guidelines.
That happened yesterday.
Peter Hosey states:
Apple resolved this problem by publishing on 2008-10-23 the amended NDA that they promised at the start of October 2008. The other way would have been to make the iPhone API documentation available to the public, as they did years ago with the Mac API documentation.
This means two things:
- Developers can now freely talk about the iPhone APIs without fear of getting C&D’d, sued, or kicked out of the iPhone Developer Program by Apple.
- Open-source developers can now write iPhone applications without fear that Apple will kill their application.
Of course, the big problem with iPhone development—that Apple alone gets to decide if your app can be distributed—remains.
Read [aretheiphoneapispublicyet.com] via [Daring Fireball]
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on October 27, 2008 at 11:06 PM - LINK