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NDA? What NDA? I mean, I get that people are breaking it left and right, but using slides from Apple's WWDC decks as your illustrations is a bit much.

by smackfu 13y ago

coldtea 13y ago
And we should care why? Is it our job to enforce Apple's NDA on a random blog?
- smackfu 13y ago
  When the random blog is getting upvoted on HN because they have exclusive information and the "real story", that is exclusive because they are breaking the NDA and using Apple's slides as illustrations, that's pretty shitty. I just see it as a less moral version of linkbait.
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    "Pretty shitty" for who? Not for me... I mean, maybe if I were sitting on a blog post for now and just lost out on my precious internet points I'd be upset, but otherwise why would I be bothered?
  - coldtea 13y ago
    Pretty shitty why? Because it's marginally inconvenient for a large multinational to make it's developer information available freely? Oh, the humanity.
- uxp 13y ago
  It's not _our_ job to enforce the NDA between Apple and other people, no, but we can certainly call out people for breaking their contract. The more people start ignoring their agreements, the closer Apple might get to canning their whole early-release developer program, which is a bad thing for all of us. Talk about it all you want, just don't fuck it up for everyone else.
dirkgently 13y ago
Sue me.
drcode 13y ago
No worries, smackfu... I am going to sacrifice an Android phone at a genius bar tonight and perform the necessary appeasement dances to make sure the Apple gods aren't angered. This way, I'm certain we'll continue to have fruitful iOS beta releases this season, despite OP's actions.
arrrg 13y ago
Why do you worry about that? If Apple has a problem with that they will deal with it. That’s it. You don’t have to play policeman for them. I don’t see what’s wrong with talking about this in the meantime. It’s just some stupid NDA Apple doesn’t even enforce. Who cares?
- smackfu 13y ago
  I see it as a matter of respect, not about enforcement or suing people. To be a big fan of Apple, then to distribute the info they ask nicely to not be shared... just doesn't make sense to me. I guess other people are just like "eh, whatever, I don't care about companies, man", and that's their right of course. And anyways, don't we all think it's a good thing that they don't heavy-handedly enforce the NDA?
stewf 13y ago
No slides from Apple’s decks were used in our article at Typographica. Don’t know how you got that misinformation. All the images were created from scratch using info that has been reported elsewhere.
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NDA? What NDA? I mean, I get that people are breaking it left and right, but using slides from Apple's WWDC decks as your illustrations is a bit much.

by smackfu 13y ago

NDA? What NDA? I mean, I get that people are breaking it left and right, but using slides from Apple's WWDC decks as your illustrations is a bit much.

coldtea 13y ago

And we should care why? Is it our job to enforce Apple's NDA on a random blog?

smackfu 13y ago
When the random blog is getting upvoted on HN because they have exclusive information and the "real story", that is exclusive because they are breaking the NDA and using Apple's slides as illustrations, that's pretty shitty. I just see it as a less moral version of linkbait.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  "Pretty shitty" for who? Not for me... I mean, maybe if I were sitting on a blog post for now and just lost out on my precious internet points I'd be upset, but otherwise why would I be bothered?
- coldtea 13y ago
  Pretty shitty why? Because it's marginally inconvenient for a large multinational to make it's developer information available freely? Oh, the humanity.
uxp 13y ago
It's not _our_ job to enforce the NDA between Apple and other people, no, but we can certainly call out people for breaking their contract. The more people start ignoring their agreements, the closer Apple might get to canning their whole early-release developer program, which is a bad thing for all of us. Talk about it all you want, just don't fuck it up for everyone else.

dirkgently 13y ago

Sue me.

drcode 13y ago

No worries, smackfu... I am going to sacrifice an Android phone at a genius bar tonight and perform the necessary appeasement dances to make sure the Apple gods aren't angered. This way, I'm certain we'll continue to have fruitful iOS beta releases this season, despite OP's actions.

arrrg 13y ago

Why do you worry about that? If Apple has a problem with that they will deal with it. That’s it. You don’t have to play policeman for them. I don’t see what’s wrong with talking about this in the meantime. It’s just some stupid NDA Apple doesn’t even enforce. Who cares?

smackfu 13y ago
I see it as a matter of respect, not about enforcement or suing people. To be a big fan of Apple, then to distribute the info they ask nicely to not be shared... just doesn't make sense to me. I guess other people are just like "eh, whatever, I don't care about companies, man", and that's their right of course. And anyways, don't we all think it's a good thing that they don't heavy-handedly enforce the NDA?

stewf 13y ago

No slides from Apple’s decks were used in our article at Typographica. Don’t know how you got that misinformation. All the images were created from scratch using info that has been reported elsewhere.

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