October 16th, 2008
Apple drops NDA for iPhone developers
Apple announced Wednesday morning via a posting on the front page of its iPhone developer site that it has decided to discontinue the non-disclosure agreement preventing developers from discussing iPhone programming.
The statement on Apple’s site, addressed “To Our Developers,” said that the company had originally put the NDA in place to protect Apple’s inventions and innovations from being stolen by others, according to iPhone News.
But the company acknowledged that the result had placed too much of a burden on developers and “others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success.”
Many iPhone developers had been openly critical of the NDA, regarding it as Apple tying their hands behind their back by denying them access to a critical resource: their fellow programmers. So it’s little surprise that the news that Apple was dropping the restrictions was met with enthusiastic responses from the iPhone development community.