Google playing a risking game with app design: Ars Technica

The suspicions of many in the iPhone developer community have been confirmed by Google. A spokesman for the company told CNet yesterday that its latest update to Google Mobile does indeed make use of an undocumented API in order to read the proximity sensor in the iPhone, which allows it activate its voice search function when a user is ready to speak.

Well, you have to give Google's developers credit for one thing: they've got guts. This could have backfired in a big way had Apple rejected the mobile app as a violation of the iPhone SDK.

But the Mac maker didn't.

One wonders if the frenzy of media attention ahead of the launch of the voice-enabled Google mobile app forced Apple's hand?

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