In case you haven’t been paying much attention to the tech (and even regular) news of late, the iPhone 3G came out two weeks ago. Yea, it is a very good phone (my phone of choice, in fact), but the launch was plagued with disasters. First off, right in the middle of the damn launch, Apple’s iTunes activation servers went down, which left purchasers either having a useless phone until they came online, or trying at home. Ok, not THAT big of a deal right? Now, this thing called MobileMe, Apple’s new version of .Mac, well, I need to quote David Pogue here, it should be called ‘MobileMess’. When MM launched on the 10th here in the US, the entire service pretty much went down. No web email, web iDisk. Hell, no Mac based iDisk ever. After about 48 hours, the web applications finally worked again, but they where very slow. And then we find out that the major feature of MobileMe, called ‘Push’, wasn’t even push on the Mac. Stupid.

Now, here is the cockmeat sandwich. First off, Apple has been applying an NDA to all users of the iPhone SDK, thus stopping people from making tutorials, releasing open source code, etc. First off, why Apple? If ANYONE can download the SDK, why can’t people tell EVERYONE about it? I mean, are you worried about competition. Even if a company wanted the beans on the SDK, it isn’t like they need to pay someone a thousand bucks, they can go and download it themselves! Now, WordPress released a blogging application a few days ago, and has since released the code for the application, which breaks the NDA. Now, Apple, if you attack WordPress for this, you are probably the biggest fags around. Honestly, no one gives a shit about your NDA. The only reason why we follow it is because we don’t want to loose our precious developer accounts.