They said this with a straight face!

AppleInsider | Why Apple keeps its iPhone 2.0 SDK under NDA:


The historical failure of many developers to abide by their NDAs has had a chilling effect on the amount of detail Apple has been willing to provide. Even within the NDA-covered iPhone SDK, which anyone can signup to participate in, Apple has revealed next to nothing about the future of hardware peripheral support on the iPhone, including expanded Bluetooth support or any devices that might attach to its USB dock connector. There is also little known about the company’s future plans to expose other low level device access to third parties.

this morning’s belly laugh. AppleInsider published this statement on its web site, seemingly with a straight face. One of the sites that most benefits from NDA leaks (both for content and visibility — and lest we forget, financially) talking about the problems this causes for the people that get screwed because the leaks happen — which they encourage and benefit from.

Hmm.

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  • http://www.bynkii.com/ John C. Welch

    Sockpuppet strikes again. note that RD references it almost immediately.

  • http://profile.typekey.com/ianbetteridge/ Ian Betteridge

    Ahh, I knew that had to be “Prince McLean” (AKA Daniel Eran Dilger, of Roughly Drafted infamy) even before I read it.