What we’ve learned from history (and Kindergarten) is that sharing benefits us all…or was it to never engage in a land war with China?  In regards to the former – we, as an iPhone development company,  couldn’t be happier at Apple’s announcement Wednesday: 

We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software. … The NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so.

It’s nice see that Apple recognizes the hindrances of such limitations and responded to the requests of their developer community…even if the impetus may be due to Google and pressure from Android’s open platform. For now though, the new NDA lift only applies to already released software; unreleased applications, like the upcoming SDK API’s (2.2), are still bound by the non-disclosure agreement.  Some has said that it’s not enough but we, for one at Bottle Rocket, are very happy and will take the small victories whilst we plan our conquest of China.

[tags]iphone NDA, apple, mobile development[/tags]