I love Apple computers. I hate Apple’s mobile phone division
October 1, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Apple
Call me schizo but I’m really beginning to hate Apple’s behavior on the whole exclusivity deal with the iPhone. And I’m not referring to the telco exclusivity but to the way Apple keeps developers on a tight leash when it comes to options to developing and selling apps. First, they’re required to sign an NDA, and then they can’t even keep 100% of the profit. Serves them right that Google is pressuring them through a more open platform (Android).
So Apple drops the NDA! Good for them. I think Apple seriously needs to reinvent itself once more into a more open platform as a lot of their great ideas (iWeb) have been implemented (wait maybe it’s the other way around?) on a more open platform.
WASHINGTON — Apple said Wednesday that it was dropping a controversial non-disclosure agreement that software developers who wanted to create applications for the iPhone mobile telephone had been forced to sign.
The non-disclosure agreement, or NDA, prevented software developers seeking to take part in the iPhone Developer Program from discussing their work, even with colleagues.
Apple’s move to drop the NDA came just days after Internet search giant Google jumped into the mobile telephone market with a handset powered by Google’s open-source Android software.
The ability of outside developers to freely write applications for the phone, the T-Mobile G1, which Google developed with telecom carrier T-Mobile, is seen as a major selling point by Google and its partners.[INQUIRER]
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on Mobile(cell phone) Industry and happenings. Please continue the good work. Thank you.