<story><title>Apple takes stance on consciousness</title><url>http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/2010/04/08/apple-takes-stance-on-consciousness/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Anyone else note the parting observation that if you have accepted the developer agreement you are forbidden from even discussing it in public without Apple&apos;s written permission?&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;“10.4 Press Releases and Other Publicity. You may not issue any press releases or make any other public statements regarding this Agreement, its terms and conditions, or the relationship of the parties without Apple’s express prior written approval, which may be withheld at Apple’s discretion.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As I said yesterday, Apple appears to be pursuing policies that will create a chilling effect on developers. No talk about what tools you used for your app development - anything other than C, C++ or objective C might kill your app. And also, no talk about the license conditions...presumably to include talk about the app store approval process, insofar as it is described in the license agreement. Sure, they won&apos;t sue you; but there goes your app store presence if they feel offended by your remarks.&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s not a very attractive deal if you ask me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple takes stance on consciousness</title><url>http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/2010/04/08/apple-takes-stance-on-consciousness/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>siculars</author><text>Apple is clearly in the wrong here. I hate to say it but they seem to be turning into the new &quot;Empire&quot;.&lt;p&gt;It is as if AT&amp;#38;T said you could only use a certain phone to make phone calls. Or ConEd said you could only use certain appliances with their electricity. Or Intel said you could only use their compiler to write programs that run on their processors. The list is endless.&lt;p&gt;This is an exercise in futility. Apple really needs to give this a rest and relax. Let the market place determine which application experiences are better than others.</text></comment>