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Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed
nigham writes "The EFF is publicly disclosing a version of Apple's iPhone developer program license agreement. The highlights: you can't disclose the agreement itself (the EFF managed to get it via the Freedom of Information Act thanks to NASA's recent app), Apple reserves the right to kill your app at any time with no reason, and Apple's liability in any circumstance is limited to 50 bucks. There's also this gem: 'You will not, through use of the Apple Software, services or otherwise create any Application or other program that would disable, hack, or otherwise interfere with the Security Solution, or any security, digital signing, digital rights management, verification or authentication mechanisms implemented in or by the iPhone operating system software, iPod Touch operating system software, this Apple Software, any services or other Apple software or technology, or enable others to do so.' The entire agreement (PDF) is up at the EFF's site."
But has Apple stooped to assimilating other people's technology?
Wasn't there a lot of discussion recently when Nokia accused Apple of using patented technology without paying a fair price?
"Little does he know, but there is no 'I' in 'Idiot'!"
You are completely missing the point; NASA was compelled to surrender the information by the rule of law, it did not do so willingly. They cannot be held liable for the disclosure.
Google may remove the Product from the Market or reclassify the Product at its sole discretion. Google reserves the right to suspend and/or bar any Developer from the Market at its sole discretion.
Yeah, they might get the other .6% of the mobile app market....
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars
"I just got screwed buying an unlicenced cable because I didn't think charging CAD $55 was a reasonable price for a $3 output cable; turns out you either pay the piper or live without, because Apple (and their licencees) all chip their accessories now and the iPhone won't work without detecting one"
Exactly what kind of cable is this, and which device? I have an iphone 3G, and it works fine with my bought-from-Hong-Kong-Ebay-Seller cables, as did my friend's 3Gs. It charges fine, and allows USB connections for transferring data, syncing, or flashing the phone.
Maybe you just got a broken cable? I know that in my lot of 5, one of them had a loose connection.
As for the N900... I have a Milestone (motorola), which is essentially in the same basket for 3G since it only supports the European frequences and thus is edge-only here (plus you have to manually enter your APN the first time, but you can find those online). Running on Edge isn't too bad though - if I actually need to do something like downloading over 1-2MB, wifi is usually nearby - and getting past the hassles of the irritating on-screen keyboard, unchangable batteries, mediocre battery life and etc of my iPhone is worth it. The iPhone now does well as a fancy Mp3 player with wifi for downloads, but then it always somewhat sucked as a phone anyhow.
Perhaps what we really need are phones that all allow tethering on data, and the ability to hook up the extra stuff (like ipods, PDA's or Mp3 players) via USB when you need to download a tune or app on the run.