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Re:How Apple Cheats by reidrac on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @07:21AM (#7809345)
If Apple is a abusing his position as OS provider by using in their apps APIs that are not available to other app developers, I'm not sure if the right answer is "go and develop for Android instead".

What I think it may be different in Apple's case is that they don't usually build apps that compete with apps from other developers like Microsoft did.

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Re:How Apple Cheats by seszett on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @11:29AM (#7810741)
> What I think it may be different in Apple's case is that they don't usually build apps that compete with apps from other developers like Microsoft did.

They sometimes do, though, with Maps for example.

... and Maps is precisely one of the apps that use private APIs.

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Re:How Apple Cheats by Consultant32452 on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @12:28PM (#7811123)
I haven't checked into it lately but Apple certainly used to ban any competing apps from its app store. So if you had an iTunes competitor, you weren't going to get it released for iOS. http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-blocks-competitive-products-f...
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