Apple Removes Unofficial Google Maps iOS App

[ericburnby]

How stupid can Toms posters be? Apple even showed people how to use Google Maps on your iPhone by creating an icon to launch the web version.

This has nothing to do with Apple blocking Google. More like this developer violated the terms of the developer agreement, and then becomes intentionally vague about why his App was pulled to make it Apple's fault instead of his own.

 

[wildkitten]

[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]If Apple was a man, his name would be Lenin...[/citation]
[citation][nom]greghome[/nom]Lenin was actually the good communist,If Apple was a man, he would be Hitler.....or Vlad Dracule.....yea, the later seems more fitting[/citation]
[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]I'd never buy a computer or other device from a company that tells me what I can, and can not install on MY computer.[/citation]
First off, Apple is not a government, they are a private company therefore they can do what they want. If a person doesn't like it, and for the record I don't, then people are free to use alternatives.

 

[shqtth]

Stories like this, just makes me happy that I decided to not buy another Apple Product.

I don't want a devices thats iLimited or iControlled, or for me to be iScrewed, iBeenCheated, IMWithoutMyMoney

 

[hiryu]

[citation][nom]willard[/nom]Stalin gets an unfairly reductionist view of his reign. Yes, he did some truly heinous things that rival Hitler in their atrocity (Ukrainian genocide, anyone?). He caused one of the largest famines in history, killing more than a million people. He instated labor camps where people were literally worked to death, and executed more than twenty thousand peasants as part of a draconian crackdown on suspected farm theft.Stalin also brought the USSR back from the brink of collapse. He rebuilt a country that had been shattered in the war, restoring the economy from ~15% of pre-war production. He industrialized the country at an astonishing speed (largely thanks to the Gulag, one of his most despicable policies). Had Stalin not rebuilt Russia prior to WW2, Hitler may well have won the war on the Eastern Front quickly, as he had planned. Instead, Hitler suffered a costly defeat. Without Stalin, the Nazis may well have won the war.Stalin killed millions. Stalin saved millions and helped the Allies win WW2. I'm not saying he should be praised (by all means, continue condemning him). He's just not quite the abhorrent monster he's made out to be by most history textbooks. Stalin had the good of the people in mind, just not the good of individual people. Can't say that about Hitler.[/citation]
Stalin is nothing when comparing the number of people killed to Mr Mao in China, he manged to starved 40 million people to death. After all the mess he managed to create, approximately 100 million people were killed and he hardly had any contribution in WW2. Despite this, he is still the most respected figure in China.

 

[law shay]

[citation][nom]christarp[/nom]...Probably because he doesn't have the right to distribute google's maps..[/citation]
I don't understand why this has to be thumbed down.

I'm an Android and Linux fan with an open mindset on Windows. However, even Google won't allow its map data to be used by an unauthorized app.

It is true that anyone (including me) can build an app that utilize Google's map data (through their API). However, there is a limit (total number of API calls per month). Even if Apple does not take it down, the app would stop working as that number reaches.

The thing is Apple is very paranoid and take down that app. However, the above comment is discussing other things.

 

[law shay]

[citation][nom]christarp[/nom]...Probably because he doesn't have the right to distribute google's maps..[/citation]
I don't understand why this has to be thumbed down.

I'm an Android and Linux fan with an open mindset on Windows. However, even Google won't allow its map data to be used by an unauthorized app.

It is true that anyone (including me) can build an app that utilize Google's map data (through their API). However, there is a limit (total number of API calls per month). Even if Apple does not take it down, the app would stop working as that number reaches.

The thing is Apple is very paranoid and take down that app. However, the above comment is discussing other things.

 

[olaf]

[citation][nom]greghome[/nom]Lenin was actually the good communist,If Apple was a man, he would be Hitler.....or Vlad Dracule.....yea, the later seems more fitting[/citation]

Actually the man you people are commonly reffereing to as Vlad Dracule , called Vlad Tepes was a decent ruler, other then having harsh punishments for criminals and people ploting against him, he did not abuse common folk, no id much rather associate Crapple with Stalin or Hitler

 

[neon871]

[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]Apple gonna Apple.Alarmed to see Microsoft is looking up to them more and more.[/citation]
soon to be renamed to "MicroApple"............