Comments on: Google, iPhone, and Thinking Like a Programmer

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:49:00 +0000

You say: “Now, as it turns out, Google probably is using private APIs to do what they’re doing.” Well, it’s a bit more than “probably,” according to Gruber: “a class dump of the application binary would show that Google Mobile does in fact implement proximityStateChanged.”

By: Google Using Undocumented iPhone API Features

Google Using Undocumented iPhone API Features — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:10:12 +0000

[...] Ross Boucher, founder of 280 North, came back with an interesting blog post called Google, iPhone, and Thinking Like a Programmer where he came up with an alternative technique to detect proximity to the iPhone – with code (and even a full app) included. Despite his clever workaround, Boucher thinks that if Google and some other vendors have been given special dispensation to use special iPhone features, it’s a reasonable tradeoff. [...]

By: Mike Cuesta

Mike Cuesta — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:39:16 +0000

Great post man.