How Apple Cheats
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How Apple Cheats
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#2Interesting, couldn't we document the private APIs and use them ourselves? Or would Apple just reject the app then?
Re: How Apple Cheats
#3Interesting, couldn't we document the private APIs and use them ourselves? Or would Apple just reject the app then?
Apple systematically rejects apps that use private API's
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#4I am surprised that this is so shocking to the author. Stuff like this is expected and only logical, as wrong as it may be. Apple has been desperately trying to tie people into their eco-system and every move the company makes is a step in that direction whether it may be immediately obvious to other people or not. Also I should mention that I believe Apple is probably not the only company that promotes the use of its own apps on its own platforms. Regardless, it is nice to see some concrete indicators like this article to actually show how that is being done.
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#6I am surprised that this is so shocking to the author. Stuff like this is expected and only logical, as wrong as it may be. Apple has been desperately trying to tie people into their eco-system and every move the company makes is a step in that direction whether it may be immediately obvious to other people or not. Also I should mention that I believe Apple is probably not the only company that promotes the use of it…
I agree that stuff like this is expected but I am still shocked. I think that this kind of revelations means you never really own the iphone you have bought. It is more like a leasing. The only way to own what you buy is to switch to open alternatives.
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#8I am surprised that this is so shocking to the author. Stuff like this is expected and only logical, as wrong as it may be. Apple has been desperately trying to tie people into their eco-system and every move the company makes is a step in that direction whether it may be immediately obvious to other people or not. Also I should mention that I believe Apple is probably not the only company that promotes the use of it…
As someone who is not an iDeveloper and has no idea what the UIPopoverController does: couldn't you make a case that Apple is deliberately crippling the competition and, therefore, make a case for abuse of a dominant position?
If it were so it then it wouldn't be about being shocking, expected or logical, but about being against the law.
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#9Of course Apple 'cheats' with regard to its own closed product, it's hardly surprising. Interesting to read about the exact mechanisms by which they do, but I'm always reminded of Jeff Atwood's article 'Serving at the pleasure of the king'[0]. It's Apple's party and they can define the rules however they like. Enough people seem to be okay with this that it's a viable method of doing business, even if it isn't desirable.
[0]: http://blog.codinghorror.com/serving-at-the-pleasure-of-the-...