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iOS 5 Beta 2 ready for download

by Erica Sadun (Jun 24th, 2011)

iOS 5 Beta 2 is now available for download from Apple's developer site. If you are a paid ($99/year) dev, you can sign in with your developer credentials to gain access to this beta. The beta is, as always, released under the terms of Apple's NDA. For that reason, enhancements, APIs and features ...

Apple's developer preview NDA is a load of Lion poop

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 28th, 2011)

UPDATE: A few things to note here. 1. Anyone on TUAW staff who has signed an NDA will indeed honor it. 2. As a site, we are not going to shy away from covering features in Lion that have been reported elsewhere. 3. It's entirely possible that certain sites have been given permission by Apple to ...

iPhone OS 4.0 to finally allow tethering

by Mike Schramm (May 19th, 2010)

It turns out that the long-awaited tethering option on the iPhone (in the US anyway) is just around the corner. MacRumors discovered that there is a new configuration page for setting up Internet tethering via the iPhone inside of the latest beta of iPhone OS 4.0. The feature isn't actually enabled ...

iPhone OS 4.0 SDK ready for download

by Erica Sadun (Apr 8th, 2010)

And...it's LIVE! The 4.0 SDK for the iPhone OS is now available to developers. Head on over to Apple's iPhone Developer site (login credentials needed) to download the SDK disk image and get started. As with previous beta releases, the new firmware and SDK remains behind an NDA. This NDA will ...

Apple played favorites with iPad access

by Mike Schramm (Apr 5th, 2010)

Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza has an insightful look at something that no one's really noticed yet: Apple definitely played favorites when it came to sharing the iPad. Here's the list of outlets and writers that got access to the iPad for an early review. You'll note that Boing Boing is on there, ...

SDK devsugar: 3.2 leaves beta

by Erica Sadun (Apr 4th, 2010)

As of yesterday, with the release of the iPad hardware, the 3.2 iPhone OS SDK is no longer in beta. The SDK is now available to all members of the iPhone developer program, including the free online program. Normally, during beta, the SDK is limited to paid members only. Since the SDK is now in ...

iPads sent out to select developers, kept under cover for now

by Mike Schramm (Mar 19th, 2010)

Last week at GDC 2010, I talked to quite a few iPhone developers, big and small, and they all told me exactly the same thing when I asked about the iPad: "No, I haven't gotten my hands on one yet." But apparently there are at least a few developers out there who've gotten test models from Apple, ...

EFF releases iPhone developer license agreement

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 9th, 2010)

In a step towards transparency, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has made the entire iPhone Developer Program License Agreement available for the general public. This is the document that all iPhone developers must agree to when they become part of the iPhone developer program. As EFF points ...

iPhone OS 3.2 SDK released, supports iPad but covered by NDA

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 27th, 2010)

The Apple Developer Center is providing iPhone OS 3.2 beta, complete with iPad developer guides and support for Apple's latest creation. Unfortunately, just as Apple has done in the past, they have enshrouded the details of developing for the iPad in yet another NDA, preventing developers from ...

Enough already with the draconian NDAs, Apple

by Erica Sadun (Jan 12th, 2010)

Yo, Apple. February's coming, and likely with it, the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK. And you know what? We're totally over this infuriating ducking NDA thing when it comes to the iPhone software development kit. NDAs refer to nondisclosure agreements. They are contracts -- in this case, between Apple and ...

Apps Amuck gives you free iPhone app tutorials

by Cory Bohon (Oct 13th, 2008)

Since Apple dropped the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) from the iPhone SDK, iPhone developers everywhere have started some awesome projects. From writing a book, to providing examples like Apps Amuck is doing, the development spectrum has exploded. The idea behind of Apps Amuck is to build on the ...

Apple's iPhone Tech Talk World Tour

by Dave Caolo (Oct 9th, 2008)

Earlier this month, Apple dropped the non-disclosure agreement that prevented iPhone software developers from publicly discussing the details of their work, saying "...the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone's success." ...

iPhone NDA dropped, developers rejoice

by Robert Palmer (Oct 1st, 2008)

Apple has dropped the non-disclosure agreement ([effin'] NDA) for released iPhone software. In a statement to developers on its website, Apple said they put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes proprietary Apple software they wanted to protect. "However, the NDA has created too much of ...

Podcaster dev can't provision any more licenses

by Robert Palmer (Sep 23rd, 2008)

Developer Alex Sokirynsky wrote a blog post this morning saying Apple rescinded his authority to provision new ad-hoc licenses for his software, Podcaster. The blog post has since been removed, possibly because it violated his developer NDA. Sokirynsky believes that the licenses already provisioned ...

Effin' NDA now applies to rejection letters, too

by Robert Palmer (Sep 23rd, 2008)

In response to the negative publicity surrounding some recent, high-profile rejections from the App Store, Apple is now reminding developers that the rejection notices themselves are covered under their non-disclosure agreements. In what is probably a recursive black hole of logic waiting to swallow ...