[news] Apple's App Store Actions Offend iPhone Developers

[nodramachicks]

iPhone developers are chafing after a series of moves that put into question Apple's commitment to third-party applications sold on its App Store.

The latest problem is a letter sent to publishers whose applications were rejected, emphasizing that all communications are subject to a nondisclosure agreement (NDA). According to MacRumors, Apple recently added this line to its rejection notes, in all caps: "THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE IS UNDER NON-DISCLOSURE."

The agreement developers approved when they downloaded Apple's iPhone software development kit appears to say as much. "You agree not to disclose, publish, or disseminate Confidential Information to anyone other than those of your employees and contractors with a demonstrable need to know who have binding, written, confidentiality obligations to you that protect such Confidential Information against unauthorized disclosure," the agreement says.

iPhone Book Yanked

The current rejection letter defines its contents as confidential information and thus within the NDA.

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[Chefanim]

and with all the negative publicity from this, they have done this:

"THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE IS UNDER NON-DISCLOSURE"