Comments on: I’ve Been Macbroken

By: Spencer

Spencer — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:20:04 +0000

Cool stuff. I will check out the podcast later.

By: britt

britt — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:52:12 +0000

I’ve been listning to MBW (and 99% of the rest of the TWiT podcasts) for years now, and CI since you and Manton started putting it out. I haven’t heard a bad episode of either yet. Hearing Austin was great, too (I’ve owned a copy of X-Plane since before it used OpenGL — ver 5???).

Once upon a time, I worked at Apple, too… and I can state from experience, that those people DO need outside perspectives to keep them grounded in reality. Actually, once *anybody* gets isolated from their customers, loosing their way gets real easy – perhaps inevitable.

I’m not a lawyer either, but… from my read of the NDA, it only covers information that’s not “public” — given the number of people that are now talking about it, I would guess that a good argument could be made that the SDK is now public knowlege (although, I have always thought that since anybody could download the SDK for free, an argument could be made that it always was public. However, I really don’t want to have to be the one making that argument to a judge!)

By: Simon Wolf

Simon Wolf — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:14:40 +0000

Congratulations Daniel! I’m actually really pleased that Leo is including other people in the MacBreak Weekly podcasts because it stops them from getting stale and a bit predictable.

Here’s hoping that you are asked back again.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:00:14 +0000

I’m not so sure about that, Peter. I believe a public statement of NDA-lifting is sufficient to open the floodgates. It is a technique for NDA-lift clarification that Apple has used before. I guess we’re not lawyers, but in any case I think you’re right that Apple will not be busting anybody.

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:56:10 +0000

> A particularly well-timed (or poorly-timed, depending how you look at it) topic was that of the iPhone developer NDA, which we discussed a bit, carefully tip-toeing around any actual violation of the NDA, which was still in effect when we recorded, but was lifted a day later.

Not exactly.

The NDA has not been lifted yet; the announcement was that they’re going to. As the announcement puts it, “Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so.”

Until then, the NDA is technically still in effect. (I have my doubts that Apple will bust anyone who violates it at this point, but that’s not the same as the NDA truly going away.)