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Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched a new app that will make it easier for people to take action on digital rights issues using their phone. The app allows folks to connect to their action center quickly and easily, using a variety of mobile devices. Sadly, though, they had to leave out Apple devices and the folks who use them.
Why? "Because we could not agree to the outrageous terms in Apple’s Developer Agreement and Apple’s DRM requirements. As we have been saying for years now, the Developer Agreement is bad for developers and users alike."
The EFF has a petition to try to get Apple to change their abusive and anti-competitive policies. The EFF does a lot of good work defending everyone's rights and freedoms online. Consider signing it. Note: you can sign on any browser, including mobile browsers on an iPhone
(Score: 3, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 09 2015, @03:18AM
Perhaps I will submit it to Cydia, for installation on jailbroken phones, or I might to a source-only release.
I'd like people to use the app but I grow weary of Apple's control-freak behavior.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday January 09 2015, @01:13PM
I was a little amazed by this part: "Section 7.3 makes it clear that any applications developed using Apple's SDK may only be publicly distributed through the App Store, and that Apple can reject an app for any reason, even if it meets all the formal requirements disclosed by Apple. So if you use the SDK and your app is rejected by Apple, you're prohibited from distributing it through competing app stores like Cydia."
I assume sane people will change the name of an app and release it as a different company if they want to release an app that's been rejected from Apple's prison while still wanting to do future business there. It surprises me that some the stuff they have in tehre is legal.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday January 09 2015, @05:10PM
Don't assume that it necessarily is legal unless they've used a court to enforce it.Companies claim all sorts of illegal things in their contracts, and the only penalty seems to be that the courts won't enforce those particular provisions. They don't even look over the rest of the terms and say "And this one and that one are also illegal to enforce.". Much less the problem that different courts may well decide differently, depending on the judges and the lawyers.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.