EFF exposes iPhone dev agreement, 'feudal' SDK terms
The license agreement for the iPhone Developer Program contains some draconian terms, says the Electonic Frontier Foundation. The group recently used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the license from NASA, a government body which like many has its own iPhone app. Although the document is outdated in that it comes from March of last year, the EFF notes that one of the terms of the agreement is that developers are normally banned from talking about it publicly....
published on Tuesday, the 9. March 2010, macintosh-news-network
Freedom of Information Act exposes iPhone dev agreement
The license agreement for the iPhone Developer Program contains some draconian terms, says the Electonic Frontier Foundation. The group recently used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the license from NASA, a government body which like many has its own iPhone app. Although the document is outdated in that it comes from March of last year, the EFF notes that one of the terms of the agreement is that developers are normally banned from talking about it publicly....
published on Tuesday, the 9. March 2010, macintosh-news-network
Apple patent proposes locked ads in video content
A newly-exposed Apple patent application suggests that the company has been contemplating the prospect of ad-supported video. In particular the filing documents a way of locking down content so that segments are inaccessible until certain ad blocks have been watched. Viewers would only be able to fast-forward, for example, up until a bar on a timeline representing the furthest of the unwatched ads....
published on Friday, the 5. March 2010, macintosh-news-network