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Google admits to using undocumented API in Google Mobile app : programming
Shame on google for using code built by google.
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Really? When Microsoft did this, everybody hated them for it.
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Is it a crime now to use undocumented APIs?
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Exactly. The whole iPhone thing is a huge exercise in being Big Brother, and people are happily letting themselves be raped anally for a bit of shiny.
I absolutely hate Apple (and even more so, people who buy their products, thus legitimising their practices) for precisely this reason.
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During the 90s when Microsoft was being accused of using their internal knowledge of Windows to gain advantage in the desktop suite market their competitors would routinely examine which APIs new versions of Word,Excel etc were using.
What was more interesting than undocumented APIs was which of their own APIs they avoided due to bugginess...
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Wait, Microsoft did exactly that and there were an outrage.
They even got sued.
Not being evil again, Google?
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How the fuck could using any APIs be evil?
Unless it's kill_all_children_in_africa() (and even then you'd have to wonder why it got implemented in the first place), using APIs is never evil.
What's evil is rejecting apps for ill-specified reasons like verbotten APIs whilst making AppStore the only way to ever install an app.
They should get sued for anti-competitive practices.
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Read my comment again and you'll get it.
It's not "using an API" that's "evil", it's the use of undocumented APIs, which, as i pointed out, is exactly what Microsoft did with Windows.
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No, I won't, because you're wrong.
Microsoft used undocumented APIs in their own platform to make their software run better on Windows than their competitors'.
Google is using undocumented APIs of the Apple platform, which Apple reserves for themselves.
The evil here is clearly Apple, not Google.
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