Apple Starts Rejecting Apps for Using Private APIs

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Posted November 16, 2009 at 2:37pm by iClarified

Apple has apparently started rejecting iPhone applications due to usage of private API calls.

Twitter user Craig Hockenberry tweets, Hearing lots of reports about apps getting rejected due to private API usage. Maybe now you'll believe me when I say it's a bad idea…

To which John Gruber replies, Yup: Apple recently started running apps through a static analysis tool to look for private API calls... I honestly don't know exactly what it flags. I have reason to believe that it is a serious tool, not simplistic.

Many developers use private API calls to gain functionality that is not present in the public API. Even Google used private API calls for their Google Mobile app.

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Aaron Wright - November 17, 2009 at 1:18am

Yea. Forget Apples Dev program. I like writing code with Xcode and private API. Why give apple another 30% when you can write jailbroken apps and sell them in cydia, or even release them free on your own site? Sure your only limited to jaibroken devices, but as I recall, a few months ago, cydia was said to be on some 2million+ devices. And the 100,000 apps in the AppStore? If you’re a small business or individual. Like whose gonna find your name in 100,000 results! If Apple is gonna reject apps, then they need to reject apps like Grenade or useless ones like that! They need to just open up the file system and quit micro managing! Look how successful android is! Hey Apple! You for telling me I can't write an app that toggles Bluetooth! By the way, it's only 4 lines of code and a private framework called "BluetoothManager". Now I love my iPhone and will never go to any other device, and I don't condemn Apple altogether, just the way they are messing up the iPhone with the way they handle business in it's department!

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Dynomity - November 16, 2009 at 3:20pm

Yep.. keep it up Apple and you'll run the iPhone into the ground because of all the bad publicity. I know that their antics have been causing me to consider getting a Mac less and less.

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xtremeshredder - November 16, 2009 at 8:23pm

same here, what if they do the same thing with the mac where they can tell you what software you can and can't install, they probably have that power too!

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Jay - November 16, 2009 at 2:53pm

Well at that rate the App Store will be lucky to hit 101,000 Apps. Jesus Christ this is getting ridiculous! I foresee the end of the iPhone in 2010-2011

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