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news.zdnet.co.uk - 11/27/2008

Google admits flouting Apple App Store rules

— news.zdnet.co.uk — Tom Krazit CNET News.com Published: 26 Nov 2008 10:57 GMT Google has 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) Google admits flouting Apple App Store rules

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macrumors.com - 12/1/2008

App Store Almost Reaches 10,000 Apps

— macrumors.com — While several sites have reported that 10,000 iPhone Apps have been released into the App Store, the actual number of active iPhone apps that can be downloaded is about 9,676 as of today's count. The discrepancy comes from the fact that many apps ha... (more) App Store Almost Reaches 10,000 Apps

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appshopper.com - 12/4/2008

10,000 iPhone Apps Now Available on App Store

— appshopper.com — For those keeping track, the App Store now officially has 10,000 apps that can be downloaded. This number is a harder number to track than you might expect. Apps are constantly being added and removed from the App Store. Removals aren’t ... (more) 10,000 iPhone Apps Now Available on App Store

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Google: Yes, We Broke iPhone App Store Rules (GOOG)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Meanwhile, CNet scribe Tom Krazit thought to pick up the phone and see what Google had to say. He writes: "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." ...

Google admits breaking Apple’s App Store rules with Google Mobile App
MacDailyNews — ... whether Apple's ability to keep up with the flood of applications into the App Store has been stretched to the breaking point. It's not clear whether Apple knew Google was using the undocumented APIs when it approved Google Mobile, or whether it simply missed that code," Krazit reports. "Google might be forced to rewrite the code for Google Mobile or change the way the application uses the proximity sensor if Apple decides to enforce the terms of the SDK." More in the full article here .

Confirmed: Google was naughty, broke App Store rules with iPhone app
Engadget — ... Okay, any talk that consistency in Apple's approval process for the App Store has improved definitely has to be put on hold at this point; first we had that BdEmailer situation that duplicates functionality (albeit shoddily) of the iPhone's own email ...

Google admits to violating iPhone development terms
Macworld — by Dan Moren , Macworld.com Google’s voice search function on the latest version of its Google Mobile search app is pretty slickly implemented: it knows when you put it up to your ear, prompts you to speak, and then searches when you move it away from your ear. No other application has leveraged that same functionality yet, and—as it turns out—for good reason: the part of the iPhone’s code that controls that capability is undocumented by Apple. Using undocumented Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is not just frowned upon—it’s against the terms that iPhone developers agree to when they download the SDK. The reason for this isn’t ...

Google: Yeah, we did use an undocumented API. So what?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... on the iPhone. Either Google just went and did it themselves, or they got special permission from Apple to dive into places that most developers aren't really supposed to go. And it turns out that the former is true: Google says to CNET that, yeah, they used undocumented APIs. What are you going to do about it? ...

Google: Yeah, we did use undocumented API. So what?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... on the iPhone. Either Google just went and did it themselves, or they got special permission from Apple to dive into places that most developers aren't really supposed to go. And it turns out that the former is true: Google says to CNET that, yeah, they used undocumented APIs. What are you going to do about it? ...

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iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — Google has admitted to using undocumented application programming interfaces, or APIs, in its latest version of Google Mobile App, breaking App Store rules. The APIs in question allows the application to use the proximity sensors to prompt for a voice search. Developers are only supposed to use published APIs in their applications, as unpublished APIs often change with different versions of the software, in some cases “breaking” applications that rely upon them for key features. It’s unclear whether Apple knew about the situation ...