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I haven't been following the rulings by Apple as to published books relating to the iPhone SDK. I thought this was not allowed.

Could someone clear this up for me?

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Once Apple lifted the Developer NDA (http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10269) it became ok to publish books on the topic. I actually don't know why this is being posted as news being that Manning published a similar book a month ago (http://www.amazon.com/iPhone-Action-Introduction-Web-Develop...)

I reckon it's news because it's a new book from a different author and publisher?... I generally find O'Reilly's books to be more to my personal taste than books on the same topics from other publishers, so I for one was happy to see this announcement.

I believe it was the NDA that was preventing publishers from releasing iPhone native application development books.

Since the NDA has been lifted to allow people to openly share iPhone development knowledge (only for APIs that have been released in public iPhone updates), that should allow everyone from book and magazine publishers to bloggers and tech conferences to share such information.

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