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The restrictions on the iPhone SDK have been lifted and we can finally communicate openly about our development challenges. I appreciate the patience of the 411 people who chose to advocate for this change alongside me. We should continue to cultivate this collaborative environment as we begin to build better …

August 31, 2008

Lift The iPhone NDA

Lift The iPhone NDA

🏆 Won — 396 supporters Verified

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Started by Anonymous 18 years ago
This is a very polite request to those at Apple inc who make NDA decisions to please lift the NDA currently on the iPhone SDK. We as developers believe you are harming the quality (and therefore the reputation) of iPhone applications by preventing iPhone developers openly talking to one another.

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Reached 250 supporters

July 29, 2008

Reached 100 supporters

July 25, 2008

6 Comments

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Jason West
17 years ago Featured

Totally agree. Keeping us in the dark hurts the platform way more than it helps. Fix it.

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Chris Mensah
17 years ago Featured

The secrecy is just stalling progress. Open it up already.

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David Ingram
17 years ago Featured

how are we supposed to build a community like this? total nonsense

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Mike Zhang
18 years ago Featured

it makes it impossible to troubleshoot anything. apple needs to get real and let us actually collaborate on code.

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Sarah Huang
18 years ago Featured

Ridiculous rules. I should be able to post about a bug without worrying about some massive lawsuit hanging over me.

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Amanda Jordan
18 years ago Featured

this is so frustrating when you just want to ask another dev for help. let us talk openly!

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