After all, the vetting process, which acclimated to let some apps in and (sometimes after the fact) cossack others out, has, for many, come to represent aggregate that’s wrong, strange, and generally questionable with Apple’s business policies. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Apple’s iTunes App Store were a match made in consumer rights heaven.
In typical EFF fashion, the organization has highlighted some of the added “troubling” aspects of the document. With that in mind, the EFF has gotten a hold of, and subsequently broken down, Apple’s iPhone Developer Program License Agreement--the document all developers charge agree to if they appetite to make it into the App Store.
The Acceding also prohibits developers from distributing content creating with the SDK in any non-Apple app stores. Among the questionable content is a “Ban on Public Statements,” which prohibits users from speaking about the contents of the acceding itself (so much for that EFF iPhone App we’ve all been waiting for).
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