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Re:Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from App Store by jluxenberg on Thursday March 04, 2010 @12:18PM (#1167409)
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.
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Re:Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from App Store by gte910h on Thursday March 04, 2010 @12:40PM (#1167476)
Only because they had the windows monopoly though, and were using it to build a monopoly in office apps.
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Re:Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from App Store by jcl on Thursday March 04, 2010 @03:35PM (#1167950)
I 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...)

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Re:Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from App Store by allenbrunson on Thursday March 04, 2010 @04:20PM (#1168067)
apple does indeed sell apps of its own in the store:

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.

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Re:Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from App Store by gte910h on Saturday March 06, 2010 @03:39PM (#1172124)
No they're not. Anything too similar to an apple app gets the boot.
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Re:Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from App Store by jcl on Monday March 08, 2010 @09:32AM (#1175367)
Can you cite an example where an app has gotten the boot for being too similar to an Apple app that is sold in the store (i.e. one that does not come installed by default on the phone)?
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