Enough already with the draconian NDAs, Apple

The Erica bashing just shows how immature the commenter-base of TUAW is - it's quite pathetic honestly....

Non developers should kindly refrain from typing...

As a developer, when you run into an issue with the SDK - and you can't get help from the community, it's a serious issue. The apple forums are a joke - they are slow and cluttered and overall useless. Not being able to talk about it on real forums full of amazing developers is a big hindrance, it's not simply a trivial want.

Seems like perfect sense for them to keep the NDAs, as it is a normal business practice in numerous fields.
I'd be getting you to sign them too.... The best part is, if you don't like it you move on and someone else is more than willing to take your place.

And, in 2011, when it's no longer under NDA, it will be a non-issue. I mean, no one's complaining about the NDA on SDK 3, are they?

I think it comes down to the fact that people who want to make some money (or ad revenue clicks, or increase their number of "friends" on social networks) are mainly the only ones affected by this. Because, by the time they're cleared to publicly post about it, it's no longer "clickworthy".

People who are granted special access can't stand that they can't let you know how special they are :)

If you are a developer, sign the NDA, it's a very minor issue, especially after they added the developer forums on ADC. If you are an end user, wait until it's out. There is nothing else to it.

Wait, so does this mean you've seen the 4.0 SDK, AND the NDA that goes with it?

Oh, yeah, I forgot... there isn't one.

How do I feel? Well,

Dear Apple,

I love your NDA, if it is one of the things that allows you to create the great products that we know and love and the atmosphere for which these can exist.

Because all of the things that are being complained about could only potentially hurt you, Apple, and not this weirdo-obssesive lady that continues to harp on and on about this every year. I mean, positive exposure, a "thriving development community", being kept in the news and having a loyal nerdy fanbase is what EVERYONE wants, right?

Wait, what was that? You say you already have all those things? For 3 years? And you started out even more stringent than you are now?

Well d**n.



I love it when Erica posts, because it's like journalism, logic and even usefulness run in the other direction.

Issues like this is why I switched and currently using a Nexus One and loving it.

"We're tired of REDACTED and we want change."

We are? We do?

Who is we? Must be some other group of petulant iPhone developers that didn't invite me to the whine-in.

I'm doing just fine.

Apple has plenty to improve but, you know, Android is right over there if you're tired of developing for the best experience in the history of mobile devices.

Wholeheartedly agree, quit whining and start writing some decent articles already.