If you ’re a software developer lucky enough to get a look at the iPad before its vent , you ’d well be ready to submit to some of thetoughest certificate measuresthis side of Super Max .
We ’d gotten an inkling about the uttermost caution Apple was taking from none otherthan Rupert Murdoch , but Business Weekhas an in - depth lookat what run on behind closed room access .
https://gizmodo.com/rupert-murdoch-confirms-ipad-version-of-wsj-5484925
It starts with a 10 - page nondisclosure agreement that must be signed by anyone prepare middleman with the twist . Developers who want to screen their apps on the iPad must do so in an separated room with melanise - out windows , and the tablet must “ continue tethered to a cook target ” for the duration . While Apple will embark iPads out to devs , they wo n’t do so until they ’ve go photographic proof that their restrictions have been complied with .
That is , of course , if you ’re able to get your hand on an iPad at all — it ’s not clear how many developer have been seeded , but even notability like Flixster and Evernote have been close out of the process so far .
It ’s pretty extreme measuring rod , peculiarly considering that the iPad has been a known quantity for some time now . But hypersecrecy has worked for Apple in the past times , even in itsmost extreme form . And it ’s nice to in the end reckon out why those first leak out iPad imageslooked so strange :
https://gizmodo.com/apple-gestapo-how-apple-hunts-down-leaks-5427058
[ Business Week ]
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