{"id":1401,"date":"2010-04-14T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T12:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2795"},"modified":"2010-05-07T18:25:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T21:25:26","slug":"re-the-private-api-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/re-the-private-api-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: The private API thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a thought to complement <a href=\"\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2793#2793\">my previous post on the subject<\/a>. A few days ago, Apple announced iPhone OS 4.0 with <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/technologies\/iphone\/whats-new.html\">&#8220;over 1500 new APIs&#8221;<\/a> (not a permanent link, sorry).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a safe bet that most of these APIs have been there in the previous iPhone OS release(s), but in their private form. Some of them were simply published &#8211; that is, included in the public headers. Beyond that, some had bugs fixed, or their functionality changed, or even their names and parameters changed; and, no doubt, many other APIs stayed private or were, even, dropped. And the common developer can never be sure which is which.<\/p>\n<p>Only Apple&#8217;s in-house developers have all this information and for them it&#8217;s a mad scramble to update apps with every OS release. This is also why it&#8217;s, generally speaking, not advisable to use any apps that come with Mac OS (Preview, Mail, Address Book and so forth) with any previous or subsequent releases; they&#8217;ll crash in interesting ways. And this is why Apple lists new features and bug fixes inside those apps when a new Mac OS release comes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a thought to complement my previous post on the subject. A few days ago, Apple announced iPhone OS 4.0 with &#8220;over 1500 new APIs&#8221; (not a permanent link, sorry). It&#8217;s a safe bet that most of these APIs have been there in the previous iPhone OS release(s), but in their private form. Some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-dev","tag-iphone"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-mB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}