Sounds just like that kid in the class who cheated on the test and claims that it did not hurt anyone...
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Apple Bans iFixit Developer Account and Removes App After Apple TV Teardown
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Doesn't really matter which company's conditions were violated. This was a failing of integrity in iFixit's decision to ignore a signed agreement.
Who cares either way. It was well within Apple's right to do this, and iFixit isn't complaining or raising a big storm about it. They just said they will focus on their mobile site instead, now that the app is no longer available.
I'm not an Apple fanboy, but hard to defend what? Penalizing a company that violated an NDA they signed with you by revoking the entire contract that agreement was attached to? That seems pretty easy to defend. I'd do exactly the same thing if I signed an NDA with somebody and they violated it.
Being an individual, I'd probably also be really angry at them, and publicly say that they can't be trusted for violating an agreement they signed with me, but I'm not a multinational corporation. Apple's not saying anything publicly, they're not suing them, they just revoked the account that violated their terms. Pretty simple.
What would be the correct, "defensible" behavior here? To not make anybody sign NDAs? Fat chance doing business in the modern world that way. Ignore it when somebody blatantly violates an NDA? That's an awful precedent to set as a business, and what's the point of even making people sign them in that case. Only ding developers when they do something really egregious in violating an NDA? What's more egregious than tearing down a piece of NDA'd, pre-release hardware so you can post photos and analysis of the internals on the web?
I actually love iFixIt and use their site regularly--and will continue to--but I genuinely don't see how anybody can feel sorry for them in this. Even if you think Apple shouldn't have NDAs on development hardware in the first place, they do. The developer account comes with the restriction "don't do this", so if you do that, you get your account revoked. Seems extremely simple to me, and I'd expect the same from pretty much any entity in a similar position.
They took a gamble with a contract violation and lost. Oh well.
Lol, oh well, learn your lesson and move on. You tore down unreleased hardware - what did you expect, a gold medallion? Learn some respect for people's IP, you could easily have waited a month or two, but the modern way is everyone has to be seen to be "FIRST! EXCLUSIVE!".
Silly generation. No respect.
Silly generation. No respect.
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Life is punitive. Deal with the repercussions. If you sign a NDA, contract, etc you give your word. If your word doesn't mean anything, what kind of person, company, etc are you? It's called principles and they knew better....
Coming to these forums for the sole purpose of complaining about everything Apple has done, is doing, and ever will do doesn't exempt you from the responsibility of understanding what an "NDA" is before attempting to comment on one.
Like I said, it's got nothing to do with Apple. It's about having commercial responsibility and doing the right thing. If you understood what an NDA means you would get it too.
You are absolutely wrong. This has nothing to do with exposing ifixit as cranks. What they are is liars and untrustworthy. They has a simple agreement, don't disclose information before a certain date. After that date they can show and say what they want.
They received a unit to help with their app development. They could have even taken it apart and held the information till when they agreed to release it. Instead for their own profit, not some altruistic agenda, they breeched the contract releasing the info early. Period! I wouldn't ever give them any more hardware early again. Plenty of other developers that keep their agreement deserve the devices more than fixit.
To all the idiots saying "uh you Apple stop banning innocent people", you do realize that iFixit broke the rules by publicly discussing the device, when they only received it to make apps? I won't really blame iFixit that much, but it's not Apple's fault either.
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Yes, and that's why god created Windows machines, for people who don't like that.
Anyway, let's get back to work, what do people think about El Capitan, or is this the iPod forum.
