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Blah blah our best interest, it’s a for profit company same as Apple. No one I mean no one will keep looking at the source code and to make sure the one on the
by m3kw9 3y ago
Blah blah our best interest, it’s a for profit company same as Apple. No one I mean no one will keep looking at the source code and to make sure the one on the phone and the code is 1:1, it’s not a security guarantee.
- Lienetic 3y agoWhat do you suggest they do instead?
- nickthegreek 3y agoFind a business model that doesn't depend on the unauthorized access of a private API would be a good place to start.
- ItsABytecode 3y agoBy “private API” do you mean undocumented public API?
- nickthegreek 3y agoyes.
- beeboobaa 3y agoHN is accessed via an undocumented public API that you are using every time you visit this site.
- tedunangst 3y agoAnd I would suggest it's a bad idea to base your entire business off using that API.
- nabakin 3y agoI've used 'private API' exactly how you did and some pedant told me it wasn't a real term so I empathize
- willseth 3y agoNothing. They got great publicity out of this. They also got Apple under serious additional scrutiny by Congress. Beeper Mini the product never had a chance at actually being successful, so I think this is about the best outcome they could have ever hoped for.
- DennisAleynikov 3y ago“Never had a chance” Because of anticompetitive behavior by Apple, yes. That’s literally the whole point people keep missing.
- Grustaf 3y agoEven if they did, Apple doesn’t care about that. If they wanted an Android client they’d make one, not allow some random company to do it.
- nabakin 3y agoThey are small enough and their blog posts are technical enough that for rn they seem to be more technically/ideologically led than strictly business led so I'm inclined to believe they aren't thinking about how to maximize profit with every word in their blog post and are not just another Apple
- quantumsequoia 3y agoThey are a for-profit company, but they want to make their profit by filling a demand people are willing to pay for