While everyone tries to play by the rules when developing and distributing Applications to the iPhone’s App Store, Google seems unwilling to follow suit and do the same. Everyone knows that Apple has some stupid restrictions laid out for their iPhone when developing for it, things like no background processing etc has caused developer uproar all across the board.
Google’s Search tool application that caused a few buzz on the internet recently back, allows iPhone users to speak search phrases into their phones instead of typing it out. The words you speak are then sent to Google servers which convert them to some form of data and in turn bring up queries accordingly.
The violation Google made was to use the iPhone’s proximity sensors which should only be used to turn on and off the screen of the phone. However, Google chose to use the sensor to prompt the application to start listening whenever the user speaks, unfair advantage right there and up to Apple has yet to remove the application from the store so what the heck is going on? On a side note, Google did admit to breaking the rules but that is not enough to explain why their application is still there.
If Google so much wanted to their Search Tool use certain things restricted by Apple to work on the iPhone they could have easily released it for Android. I’m by far an Apple fanboy but fair is fair here, Google needs to follow the rules like everyone else and Apple needs to kick that application out.