iPhone game dev accused of stealing players' phone numbers
boingboing.net 26 days ago — vampireslivethumb.jpg Iphone game developer Storm8 exploited an "electronic backdoor" to learn the phone numbers of players, according to a class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco. Filed on behalf of Lywood, WA resident Michael Turner, the suit ...

★ Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs
daringfireball.net 11/20/2008 — The "just lift the phone to your ear to get a voice prompt" feature in the new version of Google Mobile uses private iPhone APIs.

Why Google Is Stealing Apple's Ideas
forbes.com 7/11/2009 — BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. That's because, in Apple 's case, they already have. Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) is renowned for its secrecy. Employees are given different code names ...

iPhone piracy - the cold hard figures
ps3computing.blogspot.com 7/27/2009 — After the first release of my iPhone game 'the little tank that could', I was very excited. I thought the game was fun to play, and could possibly do very well on the appstore. That turned out not to be the case. For the first 5 days on the store, it ...

Apple Using Static Analysis Tool to Find Private APIs, Reject Apps
theiphoneblog.com 15 days ago — Speaking of Storm8 , Unity-engine code , private API , and Gruber , A recent Twitter exchange between him shows just how seriously all of this is now being taken by the App Store: Hockenberry : Hearing lots of reports about apps getting ...

iPhone Game Developer Storm8 Responds to Privacy Complaints
theiphoneblog.com 15 days ago — Following our posts last week concerning the lawsuit against Unity-engine using iPhone game developer Storm that alleged they used private API’s to violate user privacy by collecting their phone numbers, the developer, Storm8, contacted ...

Three20 Framework and More on App Store Screening for Private APIs
theiphoneblog.com 11 days ago — A little while ago we posted about Apple’s new use of a static analysis tool to find private API calls and reject the apps that make them. Rather than Storm8 or Unity this time, however, it’s former Facebook developer Joe ...

App Rejected due to "usage of Private API"
forum.unity3d.com 19 days ago — UPDATE: I used the nm tool to dump the symbols for the app and found references to both _NSGetEnviron and exc_server. I then did the same thing with another Unity app, and the references were there too. (This particular app was approved). Finally, ...

Developers stealing from developers: an App Store tale
arstechnica.com 23 days ago — In the high-stakes game of iPhone application development, your portfolio can mean the difference between landing a client or being overlooked. What happens when your peers decide they need to steal from your app portfolio in order to get ahead? Ars ...

Private-I Tries to Track Down iPhone Thieves
blog.wired.com 9/19/2008 — If a thief takes your iPhone and runs, a new application will help you chase after him. Called Private-I , the $1 application shows up as an icon on your handset that reads "PRIVATE" in big red letters, provoking thieves to open it. ...

Apple's iPhone sales debut in China disappoints analysts — Apple
Apple's Chinese partner sold fewer iPhones than analysts anticipated in the product's debut last week, raising concerns the price is too high to attract customers in the world's biggest mobile-phone market.