Comments on: App Store Submissions Now Subject to Private API Use Checks

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:46:54 +0000

There are also api’s that are available in cocoa and not yet public on the iPhone. This is at best lazyness on apples part and at worst, will you guess.

By: Marty Gough

Marty Gough — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:04:50 +0000

@Ben: None of our projects use the three20 library. As a matter of fact, our most recent project (and the one mentioned in the post linked-to above) doesn’t use any third-party libraries at all. This is clearly a case of Apple not being careful about their use of static analysis tools.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:35:50 +0000

What is not being said is the library the developer was using is the three20 library that Hewitt from Facebook got busted for. The library uses private APIs and infers others. The developer was linking to the library which pulled in the guilty code. The media is making this out to be a whitch hunt for Apple, where the truth is, developers are being lazy. Nothing is perfect, but there is a reason the AppStore is destroying the Android Market. Quality of applications and a tight ship. There are over 100,000 apps, and a small handful of issues. The saying the squeeky wheel gets the oil….totally true.