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I wonder if Apple would allow the inverse app in its App store.

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Apple would not approve it, as there is a clause in the review guidelines, that forbid mentioning competing platforms:

3.1 Apps or metadata that mentions the name of any other mobile platform will be rejected

Pretty hypocritical, if you ask me.

Hypocrisy is damn good business.

Don't ever fool yourself into thinking Apple is positive for humanity.

Well, but it makes no sense here. Mere mention of a competing platform would never have a real effect on sales. The crazy Jobs era is done, they should really go over that document and remove much of the nonsense stuff. It will just help their image and drive more people to Apple.

But the Android Wear app is available so, like most of Apple's rules, it's selectively enforced.

In this case, "Android Wear" != "Android", so it is allowed.

Has always been the case with Apple review process.

IANAL but seems like an anti-trust suit waiting to happen

Apple is hardly a monopoly in the mobile space, so not going to happen.

Apple has less than 20% market share in the mobile and table business, no anti trust danger there.

> The reaction is hardly a surprise, given the polarising nature of the two platforms, but Google deserves some credit for allowing the app in the Play Store - as John Gruber points out, Apple's rules would preclude a similar app for Android from ever appearing in the App Store.

Even ignoring Apple's rules, I don't think it could be done within the confines of the sandbox that third-party apps run in. Some of the stuff that gets transferred just can't be accessed.

The "Move to iOS" app is, to some extent, pointing out just how much of your data can be read by any application.

... if the user approves such access.

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