Google's IPhone App Sets Trend Rebelling Against Apple's Rules

man took me a few reads (like 20) to understand that heading. even then I was not quite sure what it meant till I went through the whole article.

Firstly, it was not "completely" proven that Google had used undocumented/secret apis.

Secondly, as noble as this article makes Google look, could there simply not be a possibility that Apple would make an exception with this rule with someone as big and "beneficial" as Google (who did provide one of the earlier maps apps for the iPhone). Some call it colluding. "so what?", retorts the mighty Jobs, ruler of the Appledom.

Crap headline. This has been going on since the app store first came out. Everytime I see an app using UIProgressHud or something similar, I laugh.

Google isn't setting a trend here. They're just following.