Standing Up For Android

Re:Standing Up For Android by ntoshev on Thursday December 08, 2011 @06:13AM (#3328653)

What is this talk about "ripping off my iOS app’s private API"? Is there a reason it shouldn't be available for Android, and Android apps should use an inferior API?

I understand people would not make some API public until they are ready to support it, but here this guy seems offended because people somehow stole his work - which seems ridiculous.

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Re:Standing Up For Android by hassing on Thursday December 08, 2011 @09:03AM (#3329069)

It's not about an "inferior API". The web version of Instapaper is free - but if you want to use a native client on your phone then you either have to pay a subscription fee to get API access, or buy the official iPhone client.

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Re:Standing Up For Android by jrockway on Thursday December 08, 2011 @07:29AM (#3328801)

He's an Apple fanboi. Of course he thinks that you should only talk to his standards-compliant web service with a user agent that he provides.

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