Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed

nigham writes "The EFF is publicly disclosing a version of Apple's iPhone developer program license agreement. The highlights: you can't disclose the agreement itself (the EFF managed to get it via the Freedom of Information Act thanks to NASA's recent app), Apple reserves the right to kill your app at any time with no reason, and Apple's liability in any circumstance is limited to 50 bucks. There's also this gem: 'You will not, through use of the Apple Software, services or otherwise create any Application or other program that would disable, hack, or otherwise interfere with the Security Solution, or any security, digital signing, digital rights management, verification or authentication mechanisms implemented in or by the iPhone operating system software, iPod Touch operating system software, this Apple Software, any services or other Apple software or technology, or enable others to do so.' The entire agreement (PDF) is up at the EFF's site."

Kool-Aid

[Das Auge]

I will not drink the Kool-Aid [thebestpag...iverse.net].

Um, No

[Greyfox]

Apple is nothing like the Borg. For one thing, if Apple was the Borg, you'd want them to come in and take you over. The Borg cube would be this magical place with fairys and unicorns that crap clean user interfaces that never get infected with viruses!

No, Apple is more like... like a giant solid gold wang! Oh sure it's shiny and all golden but in the end it's still a wang. And, like any wang, it has serious growth potential! [penny-arcade.com]

Re:Um, No

[Anonymous Coward]

If Apple was the Borg the cube ship would be white and shiny, but lack USB ports.

Re:Maybe its time ...

[Anonymous Coward]

The 1984 ad was widely misinterpreted. It was actually an ad espousing what Apple thought the industry should be like. They used an actor's giant head because Steve Jobs was unavailable on the day of filming. Oh, and the dirty hippy chick... yup that was Richard Stallman in drag.

Re:Fundamental flaw: it is not *APPLE*'s phone

[trickyD1ck]

Why not simply nationalize Apple? I know you did not sugest this directly, but from your logic this would also be a right/legitimate/moral thing to do.

The First Rule of iPhone Development

[arhhook]

The first rule of iPhone Development is you don't talk about iPhone Development.

Re:Google's apps

[Anonymous Coward]

Just read it myself. For me it read like:

1. All your base are belong to us.
2. unless we change our minds later, in which case we can move any Zig, for great justice or no justice, at our sole discretion.
3. From time to time you'll also have to pick up litter around the Apple campus during your lunchbreak.

This being apple, the copters won't be black

[Tran]

They would be white, maybe even just brushed aluminum.