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Google voice search breaks iPhone App Store rules and gets away with it
Stephen Withers
Friday, 28 November 2008 06:49
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Apple has blocked some iPhone applications from the App Store for seemingly arbitrary reasons, but it seems that if you're big enough they'll turn a blind eye. Google has admitted that its voice search is in breach of Apple's rulesIt works by detecting that the iPhone has been lifted to the user's head, records the spoken query, and then ships it off to Google for processing.
And that first step is where Google ran foul of Apple's App Store rules.
Developers are supposed to use only Apple's official APIs - but there is no official API for the proximity sensor that detects when the user is holding the handset in a speaking position rather than looking at the screen.
Instead, Google has admitted using an undocumented API to do the job.
(Daring Fireball points out that Google cleverly used a combination of the iPhone's accelerometer and proximity sensor to provide a "very nice" user interface.)
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