Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now
by scarface74 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @02:25AM
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What’s ironic is that Google enforced a rule that Apple hasn’t had for over eight years but people still falsely accuse Apple of having....
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Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now
by askvictor on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:44AM
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Not quite; Google's rule is you can't _use their APIs_ to create a product substantially similar to Google's products.
Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now
by scarface74 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:55AM
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Almost anything you write for Android will be using at least some of their APIs.
When the policy was in affect back in 2010 for Apple, I remember a good podcast player was pulled. It used Apple’s open API to their podcast directory. FWIW, anyone on any platform now can use Apple’s podcast directory to build their own podcast app without paying Apple a dime.