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Daniel Eran Dilger in San Francisco

Why Apple keeps its iPhone 2.0 SDK under NDA
August 28th, 2008

Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Apple’s insistence on keeping iPhone 2.0 development under strict non disclosure agreements is frustrating efforts in the development community to share ideas, teach classes on iPhone development, and print reference books on the subject.

Why Apple keeps its iPhone 2.0 SDK under NDA
However, it’s not preventing iPhone coders from making record profits from mobile development through. With money rolling into the iPhone App Store at a million dollar per day pace, Apple is unlikely to feel any pressure to change its NDA policy in the short term. Developers initially signed the NDA to gain access to the pre-release iPhone SDK in March. The NDA prevents developers from talking publicly about features in the software development kit, but it also bars them from talking to other users, even those who are also under NDA, un”