"They're acting in their own, and their customers best interests"

I can´t see how the NDA helps their customers. While this Apple-hate thing has been blown out of proportion, the NDA thing is more than a little bit stupid.

The NDA is irrelevant to customers. I can't see how a customer would decide to buy based on wether the company uses NDA's for certain documents.

I suppose you could argue that using an NDA might put off developers which would mean a lack of apps for the store, but customers don't care about what apps may have been rejected, they care about the apps they can use.

I don't think this is an overreaction. The NDA means that an iPhone developer can't legally blog about developing iPhone apps. That's a bit wild, isn't it?

Yes it's wild, and I'm glad I'm not developing iPhone apps, but for me, that doesn't make Apple evil.

I agree. "Evil" is silly language to use here. Unfortunately, "evil" is often used to describe Apple's biggest competitor, so we developers are used to misusing that term.

Let's take a step back and speak more clearly: what Apple is doing is harmful to its developer ecosystem. Not evil, and maybe not stupid (time will tell).

Yes I am being serious.

Hate fest? Personally, I have simply expressed the decision I have made as a consumer in reaction to actions I find offensive by a company.

I am also acting in my own best interests, as I have no interest in purchasing products from a company that engages in the sort of tactics we have been seeing lately.

Please do elaborate on how their tactics are safeguarding the best interests of their customers, I truly fail to see how.

Now, as far as this being blown out of proportion, well, going by that standard, hey, what's an EULA by MSFT? They are just "acting in their own, and their customers best interests", right?

Well, good luck finding a company that doesn't use NDA's etc to protect their interests.

I didn't need to sign an NDA to write OpenMoko apps.

Protecting Company Interests (profit) != Stifling Competition

NDA != License to Engage in Abusive Conduct