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Re:Pencil by mesh on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @11:08AM (#6762084)
"the FiftyThree team would like to release an SDK that would allow third-party developers to also take advantage of the device"

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/19/fiftythree-pencil/

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Re:Pencil by yapcguy on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @11:23AM (#6762205)
Great, but there needs to be a guarantee that you are free to develop any kind of application, even a competitor to Paper.
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Re:Pencil by interpol_p on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @06:30PM (#6765286)
Why would you even say that? It makes no business sense for them to disallow competitors with their eventual SDK because they will still be selling much more expensive hardware to those people.

With an SDK they can only sell more products, whether that is apps, hardware, or both.

Where they should limit their SDK use is in branding — they probably wouldn't want poor quality or badly designed apps advertising (or even using) the Pencil SDK. It would reflect badly on their product. So they need to maintain control in those cases.

They shouldn't allow "any kind of app." They should allow "any kind of app that meets their standards for quality."

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