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Rage Against Patent Troll.

On Friday May 13th, 2011 some iOS App Developers revealed that they are being sued by Lodsys for In-App Purchases and Upgrade Links. This lawsuit baffles many developers since Developers are using API in iOS SDK provided by Apple for In-App Purchasing. Lodsys so far is suing the Developers, but not Apple.

Adam C. Engst provided a great analysis on the matter.

It’s entirely unclear why Lodsys has chosen this approach — their lawyers have undoubtedly read the iOS Developer Program License Agreement and know that the iOS developers can’t settle. And they’ve chosen such small targets that there’s no way they could even cover their legal fees with what they could squeeze out. The only strategy that makes sense is that by targeting small developers, they put additional pressure on Apple to settle quickly.

Apple should respond to this lawsuit even though it is not yet directed at them.

In the meantime, this is what the iPad think about Lodsys:

That makes a lot of sense.

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iPhone Developers, grab iPhone SDK 4 GM, iOS 4 GM and iTunes 9.2 beta now.

iPhone Developers can now download iPhone SDK 4 GM, iOS 4 GM, and iTunes 9.2 beta. Apple also updated iPhone Developer Program Agreement. The rest is covered by NDA, so we don’t really have any further info for now.

Remember to read the updated iPhone Developer Program Agreement and then complaint about the part you don’t agree about.

Have fun!

By the way, the current iTunes 9.2 beta is not available for Windows OS.

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Apple Seeds iPhone SDK 4 and iPhone OS 4 beta 4 to Developers.

Apple has just released iPhone SDK 4 beta 4 and iPhone OS 4 beta 4 to Developers. As usual information are scarce due to a little thing called NDA.

Will bring you more as the informations are made available without making Apple mad.

Some informations are trickling in and you can find them in many of Mac-news-sites.

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iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 4

Apple has just seeded iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 4 to Developers, while EFF disected and chastised iPhone Developer Agreement.

iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 4

This is a pre-release version of iPhone SDK 3.2 beta to support development of applications for iPad devices. Please review the Release Notes and Read Me before installing this beta software release.

Posted: March 9, 2010
Build: 10M2144

What’s new in the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 4? I do not know yet, because I don’t have it. Must be more of the iPad related stuff.

As usual there’s this thing called NDA (Never Disrespect Apple) in effect, so no informations that I could gather at this time.

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Apple Seeds iPhone OS 3.1 beta 3 build 7C116a.

Apple Seeds iPhone OS 3.1 beta 3 build 7C116a and iPhone SDK 3.1 beta 3 build 9M2808
Build date: July 24th, 2009

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There are some API changes, but there is nothing major yet. For those who doesn’t do any development on the iPhone OS should have no reasons looking for the disk image. There are no visible major changes.

Changes are found in audio services, image picker and video editor.

Please do not install this beta software unless you want to deal with the bugs. You do need to have your iPhone/iPod touch registered through a Developer Account. Plus the beta software will expire at a certain date and your iPhone will be rendered useless until you update to the newer software builds. As usual, Apple Developer NDA is in effect.

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