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Google Mobile utilizaría APIs privadas del iPhone, algo no permitido a otros desarrolladores
Celularis —
... Pero ahora se develan algunas condiciones especiales que tendría Google sobre APIs privadas del iPhone que no pone muy contentos a los desarrolladores. ...
Google’s Mobile app uses secret proximity sensing system: Untruthiness!
CrunchGear —
... Senor Gruber has uncovered a trick inside Google’s Mobile app that uses an undocumented method to access the iPhones proximity sensor. In normal situations, the iPhone proximity sensor - the little thing in the top of the iPhone that knows when you have it up to your face - can be turned on or off. When it’s on and you place the phone up to your ear the screen stops responding. When it’s off, the sensor does nothing. This is key because no information is passed during this on or off toggle. There is no way to tell if the proximity sensor has been triggered. ...
Google’s iPhone App Is Cheating, Breaks App Store Rules
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
Google’s Mobile App for the iPhone is breaking some App Store rules. By tapping into private API’s the application is utilizing technology that should be off limits to developers using the iPhone SDK.
According to research done by John Gruber (Daring Fireball) and Erica Sadun (Ars Technica), the Google Mobile App that has recently been embraced with open arms, is using technology and tapping into API’s that officially break Apple’s iPhone SDK rules, that most other developers have to live ...
Google: Yes, We Broke iPhone App Store Rules (GOOG)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... quietly breaking Apple's (AAPL) App Store rules? Yes. iPhone programmers figured out quickly that Google was using "private" code in its iPhone app, which is officially against Apple's rules. ...
Google: Yeah, we did use undocumented API. So what?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... using undocumented API calls 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, ...
Vlingo Mobile Search App Available For iPhone
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... or Yahoo. But vlingo's interaction model isn't nearly as elegant. Google Mobile App can be used by opening the application with a tap, bringing the phone to one's ear to speak, then moving the phone away to view the search results. Google's engineers managed this trick by using an undocumented iPhone API that registers a change in the iPhone's proximity sensor. Using Vlingo means opening the application, bringing it to one's ear to speak, lowering the phone, pressing a button to send the voice command, and then awaiting the results. It's a minor additional step, but a ...
Vlingo: A New Way to Talk to Your iPhone
Technologizer —
... the default, but it’s easy to switch between engines on the fly.) Voice dialing. You can speak the name of a contact to dial his or her number, a feature that lots of folks wish the iPhone had built in. Google doesn’t do this. Maps. You can search the iPhone’s Maps app from Vlingo to locate businesses (classic example: pizza). Social networks. You can update Twitter and Facebook statuses by talking. Google doesn’t do this. Google Mobile App’s signature feature is the ingenious (if apparently questionable ) way it notices that you’ve lifted the phone to your ear and accepts ...
Apple Rejects Official Google Voice iPhone App [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... —web app land. It's an interesting switch for Google and Apple on the app front, actually. Google was noted for getting away with using private APIs in its Google Mobile app to make the voice search command work. Now Apple's rejected two of its major apps in a row, in a way validating Google's belief that web apps are the future anyway. ...
Apple's Chickenshit Approval Process Has Gone Too Far [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... , no less—before it delivered the feature to its own OS, very obviously using private APIs that would've likely resulted in a swift kick in the ass for any other developer. ...
Apple’s App Store Approval Process Now Includes an Automated Layer
TheAppleBlog —
... Despite being technically fair, the move feels a little unfair to developers, since Apple hasn’t exactly been consistent about enforcing the rules regarding private APIs up till now. One reason could have been that spotting their use just isn’t that easy, which the computer filter now rectifies. But it seems clear that Apple also looked the other way in at least a couple of cases when it suited them to do so, like with Google’s mobile search app, hence my suggestion that this has more to do with reducing workload using a non-arbitrary ...
