EFF: Apple's Dev Agreement Means No EFF Mobile App For iOS

schwit1 writes The EFF launched a new app that will make it easier for people to take action on digital rights issues using their phone. The app allows folks to connect to their action center quickly and easily, using a variety of mobile devices. Sadly, though, they had to leave out Apple devices and the folks who use them. Why? Because they could not agree to the terms in Apple's Developer Agreement and Apple's DRM requirements.

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Fuck the EFF.

[Anonymous Coward]

Who cares what the EFF thinks? I'm certainly not going to stop using the best cell phone available anywhere just so I can use their shitty app.

No They Aren't Adhering At ALL

[TrollstonButterbeans]

Where is the source code to this EFF app? I don't see it. This means they are not adhering. And not just in that way.

They can't complain about Apple, then NOT release a Windows phone app and not release a Blackberry app and then do an Android app and then NOT release the source code to that and then complain about Apple.

I am as big of a fan of the EFF as the next guy, but it is pointless to single out Apple's walled garden when most of the Android mobile carriers install crapware you can't uninstall.

I don't see the statically normal US Android experience giving me any control over my device when I can't even uninstall the crapware.

Some will post back saying some generic mindless stupid things (rooting, "get an independent Android phone, etc.) but that is missing the point --- the overwhelming majority of the Android users have forced uninstallable crapware --- which even the evil" Windows experience doesn't have. That isn't freedom and arguably less than the typical Apple experience.