Apple's iPhone Developer NDA Kills Book For iPhone Developers

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steve-jobs-hand-on-chin.jpgWant to learn how to write apps for Apple's (AAPL) red-hot iPhone app platform? Good luck. Thanks to Apple's non-disclosure agreement -- which you're required to agree to while installing iPhone developer tools -- would-be programmers have far fewer educational or collaboration options. The latest bit of bad news: Publishing company Pragmatic Programmers says it's canceling its iPhone book because of Apple's NDA.

We’ve had the iPhone book ready to go beta for some months, but were prevented from publishing it because of the iPhone SDK’s Non-Disclosure Agreement (which affects all publishers regarding this material, regardless of whether the reader is a member of the ADC or not).

Normally, pre-release NDA’s such as this one are lifted when the product finally ships. We expected that this NDA would be lifted when the iPhone 2.0 software shipped, but it wasn’t. The September announcement came and went, and still the NDA remains in place.

It now appears that Apple does not intend to lift the NDA any time soon. Regrettably, this means we are pulling our iPhone book out of production. But all is not lost: we are actively looking at alternative ways of getting this content to you. It probably won’t happen anytime soon, but know that we are doing what we can.

Amazon currently has several iPhone SDK programming guides listed, but we can't find one that's currently shipping. For instance, Developer's Library is working on the iPhone Developer's Cookbook, scheduled to publish on Jan. 18, 2009, but the product description notes: "This title will be released as soon as Apple lifts the NDA on the iPhone SDK."

Meanwhile, Macworld's Jason Snell has written an excellent overview of the other big issue plaguing many iPhone developers: Increasing frustration and hesitancy to start some new projects because of Apple's absurd, unpredictable habit of rejecting some apps from its store -- not based on security holes, smutty content, or buggy code, but based on subjective taste and anti-competitive reasons, with no clear guidelines for what's allowed and what isn't.

We've been urging Apple to publish detailed, objective guidelines about the types of apps it won't allow in its store for some time, as well as an appeals court for snubbed developers. But so far, the company has been silent, and people are getting angry.

See Also:
Apple Screws Another iPhone App Developer
Comic Book Ban Shows That Apple Needs An Appeals Court
Apple's Secrecy Obsession About To Backfire On The iPhone. Time To Ditch The NDA



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26 Comments

Diggy Zazz said:
Wasn't this the guy who wrapped himself in anti-establishment bull and was throwing the hammer at the image of Big Brother?

Jobs is an a**hole and any self-respecting programmer's will boycott all his "i" Platforms.

Dan said:
Time to sell off your apple stock, big brother Jobs will have driven the value down to half its current value within a year. I've been a Mac loyalist for two decades, but I won't be bullied by my servant. Mac your fired...I'm going Linux, and so will everyone else in the coming few years.

Dan said:
I'm sure all of the Apple fanbois (note correct spelling) will be out soon to defend this type of draconian "monitoring", that is if they can get their mouths off of Jobs' teet long enough to type.

These are the same people that ridicule Microsoft for not being "open", meanwhile phones running Microsoft CE can run literally millions of apps and MS has no control over it whatsoever. The irony....

Anjali said:
Apple is an arrogant company that values style over substance. This is the reason they have never made any major inroad in the business market.

David said:
Apple == Spanish Inquisition

superman24 said:
Windows CE? You're kidding, right? That has to be the most unstable OS I've developed for. I have developed for several mobile platforms, and the IPhone beats them all. Have you actually written mobile apps? Or do you just regurgitate what you read? Is the IPhone perfect? Nope. Here's a cool concept: if you don't like the IPhone platform, DON'T USE IT!!!!!!! That's the beauty of this market of ours: choice. Instead of trotting out the hackneyed "fanboi" garbage, why not try forming an original thought? Good luck with that...

Curly said:
If the market remains consumer driven then the system that meet the need will succeed. Ia Apple makes it too hard to write apps for the i-platform then another will takes place. Android is coming soon so it might be the one to do that.

Pete said:
Dan,

Microsoft CE can run literally millions of apps? Literally millions?

By the time you find the one you should buy there will be no CE.

You are the one talking like big brother when you say "I'm going Linux, and so will everyone else in the coming few years."

You mean I have no choice in the matter?

Steve Jobs Mom said:
Why has it taken so long for all to open their eyes to the totalitarian way of the man in black? Fascists always seem to have great design sense.

mama brin said:
Android - yeah right - my kid made a mobile OS named for a replicant - do no harm my ass - Google=Skynet and it is aware NOW!

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qubit9 said:
Man you peeps need to do your homework and ejumakate yourselves. iPhone's OS is OS X. If you know Cocoa (which is WIDELY, COMPREHENSIVELY and OPENLY documented on Apple's own developer site, as well many third party books) you know iPhone development. The development environment to develop for the iPhone is THE SAME USED TO DEVELOP FOR OS X: xcode, which is available for free download from Apple's developer site. And this isn't some hobbled version like Visual C++ Express for Windows. It's the full blown environment that Apple uses in-house to do all its development. There are LOADS of docs and examples showing you EVERY aspect of iPhone programming, from accessing the user's data, to programming the camera, and accessing accelerometer and multi-touch telemetry. Apple took so long to release the SDK partly because of AT&T and partly because of security concerns.

Security on Android? Good luck.





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