Comments on: Apple Makes Changes to App Store Policies

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good-news-for-the-iphone-apple-axes-the-nda « eonly.us — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:31:38 +0000

[...] iPhone applications, is terminating it. In recent weeks the NDA was in the news for everything from preventing developers of programs that had been rejected from the App Store from discussing why to stifling publication of books about iPhone software development. It also caused some of the [...]

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iphone-opinion « eonly.us — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:31:29 +0000

[...] last week, I had a brainstorm: Why not set aside coverage of iPhone-related controversies for moment and ask iPhone users what they think of their phones? I launched a little survey on [...]

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six-burning-questions-about-flash-on-the-iphone « eonly.us — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:29:34 +0000

[...] Apple’s actions with the App Store are so mysterious–intentionally so, since it’s using the iPhone NDA to stifle discussion–that it’s easy to get paranoid and imagine the company doing [...]

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By: The Latest Victim of the iPhone NDA: Developer Books | Technologizer

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:21:06 +0000

[...] we’ve already discussed Apple’s NDA and the muzzle its put on App Store developers when applications get rejected, its reach apparently extends to another area as well: books. Silicon Alley Insider reported [...]

By: Alan Smith

Alan Smith — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:55:16 +0000

Why is journalism so sensational? Please report on some real news.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:20:52 +0000

It seems to me that iPhone developers want their cake and want to eat it too. They want to develop any app and have Apple distribute it and they want a safe market place.

First every store from Wal-Mart down has the right to decide what they carry. Second, Apple developed this device. They are aware of the limitations this device has. Third, no one other than Apple has the RIGHT to develop for this device.

Lastly, I think the developer relations angle is overplayed. There are plenty of developers that are making money without much, if any, interference from Apple. If the shoe were on the other foot, I don’t think any of the developers would do anything different. They would protect their product and hard earned capital in every legal way they could.

By: nanisani

nanisani — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:11:47 +0000

This may be a bad developer relations issue for Apple, but it’s not at all like Microsoft’s browser and media player issues.

The simple difference is that Microsoft had and has their OS on the vast majority of computers worldwide. The iPhone represents a small fraction of the world’s smart-phones and is in no way a monopoly.

By: Ed Oswald

Ed Oswald — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:32:46 +0000

I’m confused too. Look at my writings from my previous gig at BetaNews. Hardly anti-Apple.

By: Paul Warner

Paul Warner — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:13:13 +0000

I’m not saying Apple should not do any oversight of the apps store, but right now they seem to be overly aggressive in that regard. They have a great product with the phone, and store.