Google using private iPhone API, unfair? Thoughts?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/26/google_itunes/

by eventhough • 18 years ago

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eventhough• 18 years ago

There are a few apps on the App Store that clearly break Apple's rule regarding their private API. I feel like this is a bit unfair because the rest of us play by the rules.

cperciva• 18 years ago

There's the official rules, and then there's the actual rules. The official rules might say "thou shalt not use these APIs", but the actual rules say "thou shalt not use these APIs unless we've looked at what you're doing and we think it's ok".

I'm sure that Apple knows what Google is doing by now, so as far as the actual rules are concerned, Google isn't doing anything wrong.

dchest• 18 years ago

It's not private API, it's undocumented API. There's a difference.

tlrobinson• 18 years ago

Not unfair. Chances are you could get away with it too.

blasdel• 18 years ago

The petulant tattletale attitude in the Mac community is really obnoxious.

Google using private iPhone API, unfair? Thoughts?

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