Apple has always been a secretive company, and their iPhone developer’s terms were no different: basically, any information that Apple provided about the SDK was confidential. Not only did this prevent most Open Source groups from working on iPhone apps, but it created a lot of bad publicity when Apple revealed that those who had applications rejected for inclusion in the iTunes store were forbidden from talking about that.

Earlier this month, Apple stated it would release developers from the NDA and post new, less restrictive guidelines.

That happened yesterday.

In a move that will please millions of people, and is surely a response to the launch of Google’s completely open Android platform, Apple has lifted the Non Disclosure Agreement it had previously placed upon every single iPhone developer. iPhone developers worldwide were up in arms in the months proceeding the launch of the App more »

Apps are rejected from the App Store on a semi-regular basis, and we’ve heard about it before. Some apps get pulled, and others just get denied, but it seems that in the future we’ll only know about the ones that get pulled from the App Store. Apple has put a warning at the end of more »

I think it’s great that the iPhone WordPress app is open source, but what about the iPhone SDK NDA (nondisclosure agreement, which means you can’t share any information about the SDK with anyone)? It doesn’t seem that the people at WordPress care too much about Apple’s NDA, since they are now sharing the source code more »