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Duplicates a native service Surly it can't be legal for Apple to potentially reject an app on such grounds?! and on that subject where is the talkative Google search update? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/building-search-engin...
Seriously, why wouldn't Apple approve it? Which of their terms will this app violate?
Duplicates a native service Surly it can't be legal for Apple to potentially reject an app on such grounds?! and on that subject where is the talkative Google search update? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/building-search-engin...
> Surly it's not legal for Apple to potentially reject an app on such grounds? Of course it is. The only ways for it to be illegal would be 1. if it infringed on freedom of speech (no way that's going to hold) or 2. an antitrust action (which would require Apple to be a monopoly)
Duplicates a native service Surly it can't be legal for Apple to potentially reject an app on such grounds?! and on that subject where is the talkative Google search update? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/building-search-engin...
They can legally do whatever they want. They've pulled apps before for the same rule. It's part of playing in Apple's ecosystem. As a developer you always take the risk that Apple will decide to wield the ban-hammer, and you basically have no recourse.
>Using Maps to Improve Maps
>> Scott Rafer:
>>What’s missing from this conversation is that map usage is critical. […] Google’s maps are going to start degrading. Apple’s will get better. They’ll meet in the middle within 18 months.
>The idea is that you need to collect usage data to improve your data. The only way for Apple to get from here to there is to release what they have now and improve the data as millions of people start using it.
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/19/rafer-maps
If Google Maps is approved, far less people would be using Apple Maps.
Duplicates a native service Surly it can't be legal for Apple to potentially reject an app on such grounds?! and on that subject where is the talkative Google search update? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/building-search-engin...
I'm not a lawyer, or even that educated, but I would be highly surprised if Apple couldn't do whatever they wanted with their own app store.
Fun times.
How does "competes with existing functionality" not wake up the antitrust regulators? Wasn't the entire IE shipping with Windows situation based on a competitive functionality?
Microsoft held a monopoly.
Everyone could and many did install Netscape, IE 3+ was just better after Netscape stagnated at version 4 for years because of a rewrite. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Microsoft shipped their browser default since an OS without a browser did not make sense. The user was completely free to install any other competing browsers without needing to jailbreak the device.
If Microsoft actually stopped Netscape from running, could you imagine the backlash?
Wonder how this jives with Gruber's comments on the maps situation: >Using Maps to Improve Maps >> Scott Rafer: >>What’s missing from this conversation is that map usage is critical. […] Google’s maps are going to start degrading. Apple’s will get better. They’ll meet in the middle within 18 months. >The idea is that you need to collect usage data to improve your data. The only way for Apple to get from here to there…
For that, you need LIDARs on the road.