In a post which appeared on Apple’s website, on the developers of the iPhone product page, the company has announced that they have decided to put a stop to their non-disclosure agreement (NDA). The latter does not allow iPhone developers to discuss about the programming procedure for the gadget.

Apple stated via the posting that they had initially adopted the measure in order to prevent the company’s inventions form being stolen. Nevertheless, the post further read that Apple had come to the conclusion that the NDA had put a lot of pressure on iPhone developers, also deterring others from offering their input on methods to improve the smartphone, thus possibly increasing the device’s success.

A new agreement is scheduled to be issued to developers, which, for already released software, will no longer entail a non-disclosure clause. Yet to be introduced software will still be covered by NDA until its launch.

Apple Incorporated, an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products, was established on April 1,1976 in California.

In January 2007, the company revealed the iPhone, a gadget running on the Mac OS X which converged a 2.5G quad band GSM and EDGE cellular phone with some features found on handheld devices.

One year later, on July 11, Apple released the iPhone 3G, a smartphone that supports faster 3G data speeds and also Assisted GPS.

With approximately 28,000 employees worldwide, the company reported revenue amounting to $24 billion for the fiscal year that ended on September 29, 2007.