By John Gruber
Clerk’s iOS SDK: Authentication and user management for Apple applications.
He claims Lodsys is asking for 0.575 percent of in-app purchasing revenue, and that Apple (along with Microsoft and Google) have already licensed the patent in question, but that their license doesn’t extend to third-party developers. We’ll see whether this pans out. (Via Lex Friedman at Macworld.)
★ Monday, 16 May 2011