Erica Rides the Crazy Train, Again

January 12th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk

As if to taunt me, TUAW just ran another arti­cle from prog­nos­ti­ca­tor extra­or­di­naire Erica Sadun that bog­gles the mind: Enough already with the dra­con­ian NDAs, Apple. This time, instead of con­sult­ing her crys­tal ball about the myth­i­cal iTablet, Erica takes time out of her busy sched­ule of huff­ing glue to com­plain about the NDA that Apple has slapped on on the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK. You know, the SDK that doesn’t fuck­ing exist yet.

Enough of this crap. Speculation about a prod­uct that Apple almost cer­tainly will intro­duce in the next month is one thing, but this bla­tant link-baiting is ridiculous.

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  • http://mattstocum.com Matt Stocum

    Did she miss the part where Apple did drop the NDA on released ver­sions of the SDK? You know, the move that allowed her to pub­lish her book full of ways to get your app rejected for using pri­vate APIs?

    The restric­tions on the NDA at this point are pretty freak­ing light. IIRC the free iPhone dev account gets you access to the SDK, and lets you into the club of indi­vid­u­als under the NDA so you can all talk to each other. If she thinks Apple’s NDA on the iPhone SDK is “dra­con­ian” she has never had to sign a real NDA.

    I’m also not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure the NDA does offer Apple legal pro­tec­tion against com­peti­tors look­ing at the pre-release SDK and using infor­ma­tion they gain from it in their own products.

  • http://alsowik.net/ Josh

    Head asplode.