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[rmc]

It's in the Apple App Store ( http://itunes.apple.com/app/classicmap/id566173771?mt=8 ). I presume that means Apple have looked at it, and approved it, and it won't be yanked in a while for breaking any terms of service,

right?

[tmcw → rmc]

No, it'll get removed; the App Store Approval process is a sham, and this is absolutely breaking the Google Maps TOS.

[gurkendoktor → tmcw]

In this case the breach may be very obvious - but Apple's review process is not about compliance with third-party TOS.

[signalsignal → tmcw]

Hi tmcw. Two questions for clarification

1) How is the review process a sham?

2) How is the app breaking Google's TOS?

[tmcw → signalsignal]

1) Because there's very little evidence that malicious applications are successfully filtered (many get in), and much evidence that nitpicky comments keep 'good' applications waiting.

2) https://developers.google.com/maps/faq#tos_tiles

[mehmeta → signalsignal]

Don't know about no 1 but Google's TOS explicitly forbids the rendering of Google tiles outside a Google application, you can only use them in conjunction with Google's own Maps API.