I think Section 3.3.1 is good for hackers in a very different way than explained in the blog post. Good hackers will (by and large) follow the law for their com

I think Section 3.3.1 is good for hackers in a very different way than explained in the blog post. Good hackers will (by and large) follow the law for their commercial endeavours rather than try to work around Apple's insane (and ever shifting) policies. I for one wouldn't set out to build a business based on explicitly breaking the law and with the possibility of a lawsuit looming. That said, the IPad, IPhone and AppStore have raised the bar for UI design, user installation, sales (and payment) processing and so on where there is now a clearly defined "what hackers want" gap in the ecosystem. The Apple AppStore is an existence proof of what is possible and this is orthogonal to languages used and so on (as demonstarted by games using Unity3D). Hackers want to build their own languages that compile down to the "native" language and APIs but they also want the AppStore style payment processing and so on with better facilities for updating our apps, a faster and more comprehensive review cycle (assuming that a review is a good thing) and so on. If someone (Google? Microsoft? someone totally new? ) were to fill this gap (and someone eventually will), it will be "good for hackers". Section 3.3.1 is good insofar as it will spur development of alternative ecosystems and force disgruntled hackers off the Apple path. No one who has a choice and wants to stay within the bounds of the law will accept such inane terms and conditions. Microsoft had far less onerous policies and far less competition than Apple in the mobile space, and yet, over many years there was a drain of top class developers from MS's platforms to Linux/BSD and later to Apple. Once upon a time MS was the only game in town for commercial projects. The advent of teh Web and Open Source changed that game. The same scenario, with different players and technology, will play out with Apple, but it won't be instant and will take a while.