Re:If you work for Apple, we need your help...
by gcv on Friday July 18, 2008 @06:23PM
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Most likely, this is just plain corporate bureaucracy. Of course Apple wants people to write programs for the iPhone. Of course Apple wants people to write books about the iPhone. However, Apple is a big company, and big companies specialize in being slow. If the senior person responsible for the iPhone SDK forgot to call the legal department and tell it to relax the restrictions, it probably didn't occur to legal to take the initiative.
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Re:If you work for Apple, we need your help...
by silencio on Friday July 18, 2008 @09:58PM
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Given all the developers I see bitching about this restriction (almost every iPhone one I know/know of, especially high profile ones..like apple design award winners (craig hockenberry of twitterrific fame)), I'd be surprised if everyone just forgot about that wee little detail. :)
I was flabbergasted to see the NDA restriction still applying after the final SDK was released (http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2008/Jul/msg00855....) and since Apple is still pretty keen about the NDA, I have a feeling it's not that :)