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I'm not familiar with development for the iPhone, but the whole public /private API is interesting. Back when Microsoft was getting investigated by the antitr
by jluxenberg 17y ago
I'm not familiar with development for the iPhone, but the whole public /private API is interesting. Back when Microsoft was getting investigated by the antitrust depth some put forward the argument that MS had internal docs and secret APIs which were not public, and this was considered anticompetitive.
- gte910h 17y agoOnly because they had the windows monopoly though, and were using it to build a monopoly in office apps.
- jcl 17y agoI guess that's a valid defense at the moment I'm curious: Does Apple sell any apps of its own in the App Store? And, if so, do they reject other apps for being similar? (Being able to deny OpenOffice access to the Windows platform because it duplicates functionality in Notepad is the kind of power Microsoft can only dream of...)
- allenbrunson 17y agoapple does indeed sell apps of its own in the store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/texas-holdem/id284602850?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/texas-holdem/id284602850?mt=8 it seems like they are for the most part playing fair: apple's apps don't use private apis, they are required to compete against other apps the same as the rest of us, and so on. if there have been any violations of that "gentleman's agreement," i haven't heard about them, and i pay a lot of attention to the blogosphere on this subject. it seems to be only the apps that are installed by default on the device that get special treatment.