>...and you get a mountain of trouble if you allow
>developers to use unofficial APIs.

So why the bloody hell are those "unofficial APIs" in there, then? Where is the god-given right for Apple's own application programmers to use them, but nobody else? It's either hypocrisy (do as we say, not as we do) or conflict of interest (you can't compete with our apps) or both of the above, take your pick.

no kidding it takes some fancy top condition software to keep an unstable poorly cooled heap from failing.i don't like apples products but i have to admit those drives make most look like 5 minutes of work lol.

since this app is only available to those living in certain countries. The local app store is a shadow of its US version. The same unequal treatment of customers occurred for podcasts too. I dread the "This blah blah is not available in your country's xxx store" message. No wonder a jailbreak ensued :-)

Well, I would suppose the reason them not using the public API's is about such a function not being there. If apple would provide the functions I am sure google would update the software to use it.


But I've made a few bits of software in my time and you get a mountain of trouble if you allow developers to use unofficial APIs.

If you don't lay down the rod, then they'll all be doing it and soon as you do a software update, you break dozens of Apps and end up with millions of p*ssed off customers.

If we ever want to drag ourselves into a better software future we need much tighter regulation on the quality of the software we make.

I really shouldn't need to say this but I will anyway. I'm not a Apple User.