This is an older article, but I just ran across a reference to it while reading about Apple's rejection of Google's Voice app for the iPhone[1].
MS has long been criticized for using it's OS advantage as a lever for application lock in by having access to private API's, etc... It's part of what the detractors like to use as evidence of their being the evil empire... unlike Apple. Or not: http://daringfireball.net/2008/11/google_mobile_uses_private_iphone_apis I'd like Apple a lot more if they (or their proponents) wouldn't play up their "pure as the driven snow" stuff so much. -sc [1]- The current Google app rejection is interesting in itself... likely motivated NOT by concern for end users as much as protecting it's financial relationship with AT&T with whom the Google app might be seen as a competitor... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
