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Apple has drawn some serious fire of late for their seemingly random iPhone AppStore application rejections. Apple supposedly doesn’t allow applications that make un-supported API calls, like the one that Google’s Google Mobile iPhone app uses to detect face-proximity for its voice-search feature.
Google has been reported to be using an undocumented API to call up the iPhone and iPhone 3G‘s proximity sensor, which goes against Apple’s own rules. A future iPhone firmware update might just break Google’s proximity sensor API, which would render the Google Mobile iPhone application’s face-detection feature useless. Of course, Google is likely to find a workaround for the feature, if push comes to shove.
More to the point, Apple is struggling to keep pace with iPhone applications hitting the AppStore. With the volume of new applications Apple could be allowing rule-breaking apps through the AppStore gate in order to approve them in a timely manner. Apple could make it easier on their internal checkpoint procedures if they were to relax their rules and make iPhone application development a bit more open – like the Android OS.
[Via: MocoNews]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
