Apple opening up a little

**Xondria** · 10-01-2008, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by insight spinner

apple is running scared. They went over the top on commercials on Monday during the show Heroes and I just sat there grinning, thinking "someone wants to shore up their loyalty before G1 hits the streets."

If I were them I'd pull whatever rabbits I could out of my little wormy hat.

They played a ton of commercials during House yesterday too. It really started to get annoying..oh look an iphone commercial AGAIN.

**swaney29** · 10-01-2008, 04:49 PM

ha ha they are getting scared cuz the know the deal

**tread** · 10-01-2008, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by MrGibbage

Is Apple moving towards open source? This has gotta be in response to Android.

"To our developers:

We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.
We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.
However, 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. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.
Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter."

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/

removing the NDA is one more step to being "open," but osx will never go anywhere near open source ever, i can almost guarantee that... don't think apple would make that big of a plunge because they'd lose way too much because the OS running on the iphone is practically a port of a desktop version

**Big Al** · 10-01-2008, 06:05 PM

I dont think its solely from the Android OS, but I do think its pushing this. Once this phone comes out and takes off, a lot of companies are going to be changing the way they do things, and the kind of phones they carry.

**Big Al** · 10-01-2008, 07:13 PM

Just one way the Android OS is going to revolutionize the cell phone world.

**NetCom** · 10-01-2008, 10:46 PM

Thinking outside of the Box. Bringing revolutionary moves into the modern 21st century... yep I am talking about Google

**Finges** · 10-02-2008, 01:29 AM

Originally Posted by tread

removing the NDA is one more step to being "open," but osx will never go anywhere near open source ever, i can almost guarantee that... don't think apple would make that big of a plunge because they'd lose way too much because the OS running on the iphone is practically a port of a desktop version

You'd be suprised how much of Apples Source code is available

http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/