I say go for it – I’d buy “NDA” in protest…

As Todd Baur correctly points out, what do you expect from a company that behaves more like a dictatorship than a publicly held company?

Now, if the boys in Redmond were smart, they would open up the Zune to developers.

Its in many ways just bigger than this situation. Apple behaved like this in the past. Its arguably one point why Microsoft & its hardware partners were able to push them into near oblivion. Apple is growing and building very large platforms again, putting the people who make it a success under KGB terms once again. The culture of hush needs to cease because it will fail and cement Apple into their downfall once again. Don’t get me wrong either, Apple has information it needs to protect as well however no one at Apple can really justify or talk about it. Oh irony, its good to see you again.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

If there are enough complaints, Apple will have to listen. Letters would help, particularly corporate letters addressed high up the Apple food chain.

Someone might want to see if Chilling Effects, a joint project of “the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics,” might be interested in taking on this abuse of non-disclosure agreements.

http://www.chillingeffects.org/

I say go for it – I’d buy “NDA” in protest…

Seriously Apple, its gotten to the point where I’m ready to build a minimally functioning app called “NDA” and submit it for rejection just to challenge the whole thing.

I, for one, was totally ignored because I wanted to utilize a hardware feature Apple does not allow (or is reserving for their own use). Being put on hold was a benefit for me as I now can do it better using Google’s Android and the market potential is huge for the turn-key app including a dedicated hardware.