iPhone coders take a poke at Apple on F**kingNDA.com

Darius Chang | Aug 07, 2008

The iPhone may have a stunning design and speedy hardware, but the true beauty of the device lies in the applications and services within. The cottage industry era may be long gone, but it still thrives in the arena of application development. The next killer app has as much chance of coming from a large software house as from a pimpled teenager playing with an SDK (Software Development Kit) after school.

How is it possible that a kid can create an application better than a team of professional programmers? Thanks to the Internet, developers can ask for assistance anywhere in the world whenever they get stuck in a rut, or simply want to know a more efficient method of coding a particular interface.

Unfortunately for iPhone developers, who are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before using Apple's SDK, they are not allowed to discuss code, programming tips or even ask questions in any medium. This has caused programmers so much grief that one in particular, Justin Williams, who is a developer for Second Gear, created a Website dedicated to to the mantra of iPhone developers everywhere. F**kingNDA.com is a site for programmers to vent their frustrations over Apple's NDA.

So until such time when the Cupertino company removes such restrictions, application developers will either have to settle for inferior codes, or give up a particularly tricky interface all together. Frankly, considering the pain users experienced during its initial launch, we're surprised that F**kingVista.com hasn't been taken up yet.

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