Apple Extends Non-Disclosure to App Store Rejection Letters
I can understand Apple’s desire to put a NDA on iPhone app development, but this seems to be taking it too far. I can guess why they did it, namely to avoid negative press, but I think it will do quite the opposite. The community on Digg already seems to be frothing at the mouth over this and not entirely unjustified in their reaction. It upsets me that they chose to do this because it makes them appear to be covering up the fact that they reject certain apps. It could be they don’t want anyone to know what apps they reject because competitors could use this to try and discover what types of apps Apple doesn’t want on the iTunes store and then leverage this against them. I guess we’ll have to wait and see how how far Apple is willing to take this. [Photo credit GiniMiniGi]
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September 30th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Apple isn’t as great as they used to be, they’ve been getting lazier and don’t have too great of department for the App store. I can’t blame them though, it’s an easy way to make a buck at the moment and the majority of people enjoy it more than they dislike it.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Well they just recently dropped the iPhone SDK NDA so that is a step in the right direction, but I’ve been thinking for a while that I bet as Apple grows in popularity their reputation will become more like Microsoft’s.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Apple also lost a bunch of cash due to the stock market crash. Wonder if that has anything to do with it… Oh and in some ways I hope Apple follows Microsoft’s examples (Apple version of the 360). I honestly don’t care what they do with iTunes, I can get my music for cheaper elsewhere and I just use a jailbroken iPod. Oh one more thing for ya, Tuesday Apple is supposed to release a new laptop ^_^