Apple treats all iPhone developers equally – like crap

Today Google released Google Latitude for the iPhone, something BlackBerry and Android users have been enjoying for quite some time.

One paragraph in particular jumped out at me, emphasis mine:

We worked closely with Apple to bring Latitude to the iPhone in a way Apple thought would be best for iPhone users. After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a web application in order to avoid confusion with Maps on the iPhone, which uses Google to serve maps tiles.

So Google was working "closely" with Apple, built a native iPhone application¹ for Latitude, and then Apple essentially rejected it and told them to build a web application. Isn't building an entire application only to have it wholly rejected one of the leading complaints about the nightmarish App Store approval process?

I'd love to see a build of this leaked out so jailbreak users could run it [back]

Tags: App Store, Apple, Google, iPhone, Latitude

Posted on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 at 5:06 pm | Filed under Development, iPhone, Software, Technology
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Better Elevation » Blog Archive » Google Latitude Rejection Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 12:28 am
[...] Corey Gilmore: So Google was working "closely" with Apple, built a native iPhone application for Latitude, and then Apple essentially rejected it and told them to build a web application. [...]

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