NDA PARTY!!!

“To our developers

We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.

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.”

YES! Apple has finally dropped its non-disclosure agreement (NDA). For the past three months the NDA has kept developers from sharing almost any information about their apps, how they made them, and how Apple’s SDK works. As they said on their Developer Page, Apple’s original intention was to keep competitors from stealing their technology, despite Apple already having “hundreds” of patents and copyrights on their work. I guess they finally caught the picture. The NDA was ticking people off.

I guess it’s just a coincidence that Google’s very open Android mobile OS has finally been revealed.

Anyways, with no more NDA, we can expect to find plenty more apps in the store. Current developers will share what they know and just about anyone will start to make their own apps. Sounds good to me!