<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Greetings!</div><div><br></div><div>Apple finally decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement for the iPhone software developers. This NDA was a major hurdle for the MIT community members who were interested in developing iPhone native applications. Now that Apple no longer requires the NDA, we can potentially pursue developing native applications and offer classes on iPhone application development without subjecting the faculty, staff, and students to keep the iPhone SDK information confidential.</div><div><br></div><div>Please see below for the official version of the announcement.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><br></div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><img alt="To Our Developers" width="253" height="30" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " src="cid:FF81294D-6BF6-46A0-9492-2325398B87C5@apple.com"></span></b></font></div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; ">We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; ">We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; ">However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; ">Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter.</p></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>________________________________<br>Andrew Yu<br>Mobile Devices Platform Project Manager<br>Information Services & Technology<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>Phone: 617-324-8985<br>Email: <a href="mailto:andrewyu@mit.edu">andrewyu@mit.edu</a><br>________________________________</div><div>Do you have a mobile device? </div><div>Check out the MIT Mobile Web at <a href="http://m.mit.edu">http://m.mit.edu</a></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>