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The article includes a quote suggesting that there are no successful platforms that NDA bans public developer discussion.

This is only true if you ignore the entire gaming industry, where I can think of not a single successful platform that allows public discussion.

I hope that Apple eventually realizes that a healthy developer community is actually in their best interest.



The problem is that beyond events like WWDC, apple really has no place to discuss anything NDA'd - not just the iPhone SDK, but things like developer seeds as well.

I'm betting the iPhone SDK NDA will be lifted someday, just right now it makes zero sense.


Can you elaborate on why you think Apple does not have a healthy developer community?


I think he misspoke. I think it's a healthy developer community with unhealthy restrictions. That's what he hopes Apple will realize they don't want.

Although I don't think anybody should think for a moment that Apple would keep this restriction if it ever seemed it might cost them something.




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