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All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement
Apple's Draconian Developer Docs Revealed
HTC Lawsuit Caps Series Of Initimidating Apple Meetings
Dublin Firm 1st With iPhone Web Payments
Steve Jobs says 'No' to iPhone-to-iPad tether
Stanford Survey Contemplates IPhone Addiction
Exiled iPhone Wi-Fi Apps Move To Cydia
All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement
An EFF Legal Analysis by Deeplinks' Fred von Lohmann notes:
The entire family of devices built on the iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) have been designed to run only software that is approved by Apple—a major shift from the norms of the personal computer market. Software developers who want Apple's approval must first agree to the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement.
So today we're posting the "iPhone Developer Program License Agreement"—the contract that every developer who writes software for the iTunes App Store must "sign." Though more than 100,000 app developers have clicked "I agree," public copies of the agreement are scarce, perhaps thanks to the prohibition on making any "public statements regarding this Agreement, its terms and conditions, or the relationship of the parties without Apple's express prior written approval." But when we saw the NASA App for iPhone, we used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to ask NASA for a copy, so that the general public could see what rules conrolled the technology they could use with their phones. NASA responded with the Rev. 3-17-09 version of the agreement (it has reportedly been revised somewhat since - please send us the current version if you are able).
So what's in the Agreement? Here are a few troubling highlights..........
For the full report visit here:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/iphone-developer-program-license-agreement-all
Apple's Draconian Developer Docs Revealed
The Register's Rik Myslewski says:
In the 1999 movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: "The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."
Apple's iPhone Developer Program License Agreement phrases that sentiment differently, but its directive to iPhone developers is essentially the same:
You may not issue any press releases or make any other public statements regarding this Agreement, its terms and conditions, or the relationship of the parties without Apple's express prior written approval, which may be withheld at Apple's discretion....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/09/iphone_developer_agreement/
HTC Lawsuit Caps Series Of Initimidating Apple Meetings
Electronista reports:
Apple's lawsuit against HTC is just the culmination of a series of threats against competitors, says Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner. Industry checks are said to reveal that beginning in January of this year, Apple held a series of talks with cellphone makers in which it expressed "growing displeasure" at what it saw as infringement of iPhone concepts. Although held in private, the meetings are said to have been "blunt" in nature.
To read more, click here.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/03/09/apple.attack.undermines.competitors.efforts/
Dublin Firm 1st With iPhone Web Payments
businessworld.ie reports:
Dublin-based secure online payment services firm, WorldNet, today said it has become the first in Europe to offer a new application that allows businesses to accept secure card payment transactions through their iPhone.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=2567475
Steve Jobs says 'No' to iPhone-to-iPad tether
The Register's Rik Myslewski reports:
Steve Jobs has spoken: Apple's "magical and revolutionary" iPad will not allow iPhone-to-iPad 3G tethering.
So reports the Swedish tech blog and podcast Slashat.se. When Swedish trance DJ Jezper Söderlund emailed Apple's CEO asking if a WiFi-only iPad could tether to the internet using an iPhone's 3G connection, he received the following to-the-point reply:
"No."
"Sent from my iPhone"
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/08/no_ipad_tethering/
Stanford Survey Contemplates IPhone Addiction
Macworld's Nicholas Bonsack says:
Remember what life was like before the iPhone? Back when we had to print out maps for trips, do simple calculations in our heads, drive around to find a good restaurant, and watch YouTube videos on a device no smaller than a laptop? Dark times, indeed.
You might even say that some of us have grown dependent on these handheld devices--perhaps even addicted. You wouldn't be alone: a Stanford University survey administered to 200 college students claims just that.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/yczotc3
Exiled iPhone Wi-Fi Apps Move To Cydia
The Register's Bill Ray reports:
Developers kicked out of the iTunes store for using private APIs are turning to the unregulated Cydia store, and think the demographic might even suit them better.
Last week Apple kicked out a handful of applications that made use of "private framework" APIs to enable scanning for nearby hot spots. Now those apps are popping up on Cydia, with one already hitting 18,000 downloads by iPhone users willing to jailbreak their handsets to get applications that Apple won't allow.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/08/iphone_cydia/
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