Comments on: Apple Drops iPhone Developer NDA On Released Software

By: iPhone Application Developer

iPhone Application Developer — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:13:06 +0000

The iPhone is actually the next generation of hand held devices. My experience with developing iphone applications has also been GREAT! Sam iPhone Application Developer

By: Apple iPhone Tech Talks in Berlin bei im web gefunden

Apple iPhone Tech Talks in Berlin bei im web gefunden — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:53:55 +0000

[...] Ironie daran war, dass man nur kurze Zeit später darauf hingewiesen wurde, dass Apple den NDA für die iPhone Entwickler gelockert [...]

By: Apps Amuck: The Road Ahead | Apps Amuck Blog

Apps Amuck: The Road Ahead | Apps Amuck Blog — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:04:14 +0000

[...] Wednesday, October 01, 2008 Apple remove the iPhone SDK NDA, and Apps Amuck was there. On the same day we started our 31 days [...]

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Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:03:08 +0000

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By: iPhone Tech Talk World Tour also touches India | Control Enter

iPhone Tech Talk World Tour also touches India | Control Enter — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:20:57 +0000

[...] still available. But you need to be Registered iPhone Developer to attend the talks and thankfully no more NDA for you [...]

By: iPhone project - 1 month in | Fincision

iPhone project - 1 month in | Fincision — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:57:17 +0000

[...] we’ve been distracted, the business side of the app got a little easier when Apple decided to drop the NDA clause in its agreement with developers. I’m glad I haven’t spent that much time to date on [...]

By: lil more details plz

lil more details plz — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:33:02 +0000

Thats the difference btw good and best bloggers.. lil more detail and opinion and i need not have to click through all links given.

Ultimately, me being new to this issue, i could not make any sense of this blog post.

By: Paul Smith

Paul Smith — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:35:00 +0000

Good news, so long as it doesn’t lead to the Apps Store filling with more junk that doesn’t work.

By: Rudolfweb » heute2: Rabatte, Burda, WDR.

Rudolfweb » heute2: Rabatte, Burda, WDR. — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:26:01 +0000

[...] Apple schafft viel kritisierte Geheimhaltungsvereinbarung für iPhone-Entwickler ab – die Tüftler dürfen sich jetzt öffentlich über ihre Arbeit austauschen. golem.de, techcrunch.com [...]

By: Adam Doppelt

Adam Doppelt — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:33:49 +0000

Excellent! Now I can finally post my review of the iPhone SDK, based on our experience building Urbanspoon for iPhone:

http://www.urba...The-Review.html

By: Apple drops NDA For released iPhone Software! at iFonePlanet.com

Apple drops NDA For released iPhone Software! at iFonePlanet.com — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:33:10 +0000

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ProjectX Blog » Blog Archive » Xlinks digest - 02 / 10 / 2008 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:16:41 +0000

[...] Apple drops NDA on released softwareAdded on 10/02/2008 at 09:12AM [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:32:29 +0000

Pretty obvious they’re feeling the heat from Android. And while this is definitely a step in the right direction, there’s a big difference between embracing open innovation and conceding to it. They may be improving their game, but they’ve still got the wrong attitude.

By: Appruv.com

Appruv.com — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:46:51 +0000

I knew this was coming…only a matter of time. Like I’ve said, competition is always a good thing.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:43:57 +0000

they saw how many people are clamoring for android.

silly apples. “no, we don’t need a community for people developing our applications!” hahaha

it’s high time they knock off their cut of the app store too. push what little money people can make off the apps back to them so they can make even better apps. grow your community by supporting THEM and they’ll in turn drive your brand.

it’s a no brainer

By: John Kyle

John Kyle — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:10:28 +0000

Aside from the bogus reasoning they have given for having the NDA in the first place… the people that need the NDA removed the most are people that have not released an application.. so they can get help in building an app. If a developer runs into a problem… he or she cannot ask anybody else… and must wait for apple support to respond… how does this affect any potential open source applications?

By: FernyB | Apple Drops iPhone Developer NDA On Released Software

FernyB | Apple Drops iPhone Developer NDA On Released Software — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:53:09 +0000

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By: Jean Vincent

Jean Vincent — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:51:38 +0000

“… includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work.”

That’s really funny. How about:

… includes many Open Source inventions and innovations that we would like to lock with a few proprietary extensions.

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:47:18 +0000

Oh its too much of a burden on the developers is it? You have our best interest in mind do you?

Well where was this sentiment when they made this policy in the first place? Seems to me Apple’s policy is ‘get away with as much as we can’. I think Apple’s iconic status has gone to it’s management’s head… Its your users who you should be serving, not your egos… get it right!

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » アップル、リリース後のiPhoneソフトについてはNDAを撤廃

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » アップル、リリース後のiPhoneソフトについてはNDAを撤廃 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:32:55 +0000

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By: tony

tony — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:00:46 +0000

im glad apple did this, it would have really hurt their customers and developers if they continued with this.

http://gatesand...ple-can-do.html

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:50:35 +0000

Such books should help push the creativity of iPhone Apps – I’m sure that there are lots of creative people out there who can’t get their heads around the SDK and C++.

By: Fidel Guajardo

Fidel Guajardo — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:46:55 +0000

I think this also means publishers can now legally release books about the SDK. I have been waiting for one from http://www.pragprog.com/ and their whole issue has been the NDA and so they couldn’t legally publish the book.

By: vectr

vectr — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:34:38 +0000

There was some speculation that the NDA was in place to protect patents:
http://daringfi...one_nda_patents

“At my company, our lawyers advised us to keep what we considered more-or-less public software under NDA for a very long time because demoing software to someone under NDA, no matter how many people it is, avoids “publishing” the software and any inventions contained therein. We know Apple’s been building up a patent strategy around multi-touch; maybe their lawyers believe there are patentable inventions described in the iPhone SDK and they are telling Apple to keep everything under NDA until they know provisional patents can be filed within a reasonable amount of time (you get a year after publishing in the US, but in the EU, I think you forfeit any patent claims once your invention is “published”).

It’s like, it doesn’t matter at all how broad/leaky the NDA process is, in the eyes of the USPTO, every invention in the iPhone SDK is a non-published invention and will continue to be so until the NDA is lifted.”

By: Alex Linhares

Alex Linhares — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:27:17 +0000

“Stop whining about Apple”? Who wrote that again?