Google admits breaking App Store rules

[FSOwner]

Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone, but denied a more serious charge.

A Google spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Google Mobile uses undocumented APIs (application programming interfaces) in order to use the iPhone's proximity sensor to prompt a verbal search. iPhone developers were only supposed to use the APIs that Apple published in its SDK when they create their applications under the terms of that agreement.

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[mesavage]

Hell, why have it accessible in the first place if your not supposed to use it.

This sounds almost like a bait and trap situation to me. Here little doggie, here is a lovely bone for you, BUT! you can lick it, don't bite or chew it!

 

[arcanexiii]

thanks for that