A developer raised a point about the developing for the Ovi Store about Java Verified being a requirement:

I was hoping that Java Verified will not be a requirement, we are signed by Verisign but a Java Verified process will make our production costs far more expensive which will end up costing to the users and hurting the platforms accessibility…

Please Nokia pay attention to the highest selling segment in the Apple app store: the $1 applications… This price point might not be feasible with Java Verified.

In the beginning, when Symbian was pretty much the ruler of mobile applications they could dictate much of the pricing, which led to apps costing more than $10.00 a piece. When iTunes launched the $0.99 cent apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, things suddenly changed. Now, people won’t hesitate to throw in a dollar for an application. Nokia’s Ovi Store needs developers to pass Java Verified testing which will add to the cost of the applications — will the public be ready to shift back to its old ways and pay more than the sweet spot of 0.99 cents?

Rumor is, Nokia has the prices preset. So I guess only time will tell, eh?

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Though jailbreaking allows access to apps that Apple doesn’t approve of and enables unlocking the phone from approved carriers, it also allows users and developers access to the UNIX underpinnings of iPhone OS, which both groups could have perfectly legitimate reasons for wanting. These provisions aren’t likely to stop the iPhone Dev Team from working on a jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.0, but there are certainly developers who will think twice about helping in those efforts or distributing a rejected app for jailbroken phones, lest they lose access to the iPhone developer program altogether.

I guess it’s the same with the porn industry — maybe why BluRay survived over HD DVD. A lot of innovations took place in what seems to be the most frivolous of industries and yet we take them for granted.

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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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