Nov 27 Google Playing Unfairly On iPhone's App Store
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The boys at Google are not playing fairly in the iPhone’s App Store, they should have just released it on Android first, what’s so hard in doing that?
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.
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Wow, someone's been drinking the Grey-Mock-Turtleneck flavoured Kool-aid, haven't they? Let me get this straight, Google comes up with a way to use the iPhone's proximity sensor, "which should only be used to turn on and off the screen", in a creative way not necessarily foreseen or "approved" by the good folks at 1 Infinite Loop. This transgression leads to the availability of a new and useful feature for the software user. And instead of celebrating this step forward in mobile software design, you iTards are calling for the offending application to be pulled? Are you for real? Let me be crystal clear on this issue. The problem here is not Google’s flaunting of Apple's ridiculous rules. The problem isn't even that said rules are there in the first place. The problem is that there are people out there like the author of this piece who are willing to defend Apple's monopolistic practises that continue to choke off the flow of great ideas that would lead to a better user experience if not for the short-sighted profiteering at Cupertino. And in case you've completely lost perspective, by user I mean the saps who pay their money for the privilege of using an iPhone. Every time I read a post like this, I thank God that I'm a Windows Mobile user, giving me access to a constant flow of (mostly) free applications allowing me to do almost anything I can imagine with my phone without the interference of some Big Brother-esque corporation intent on keeping complete control over my device that I bought with my money. That, and being able to copy & paste. Now I would suggest that you all get your heads out of your posteriors long enough to stop calling on Apple to pull this application from the App Store because it breaks the rules. Rather, work to improve the user experience by calling on Apple to do away with these draconian limitations, thereby allowing the paying customer to have access to everything these software designers can dream up. Who knows, one day you might even get some real navigation software.