How the mighty have fallen...
October 01, 20082 comments
Apple tucks its tail between its legs like a scolded dog after being pressured by developers regarding its non-disclosure agreement on the iPhone development kit:
We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.The moral of this story: your platform is never so cool that you can piss all over your developers.
We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don't steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.
However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone's success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.
Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter.
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I think there's a market for a phone without GPS (I know a CEO guy who has a closet-full of still-working StarTac's because he doesn't like his location revealed), doesn't text, and won't IM - and has an easy to use and sync phonebook that you can maintain on your PC and connect with a standard USB cable.
Everyone's trying to build a Buggatti, where's the Yugo?
On the trash heap of history, along with Yugoslavia.
Kidding aside...
I don't know if it would be legal to have a phone without GPS anymore, thanks to the FCC. However, one that just does calls, and does them really well, would probably have a pretty sizable market. Enough that someone could make a decent profit, even if they never get THAT big from it.