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Marco.org: iBooks and private APIs

iBooks’ use of tons of private APIs is frustrating on a few levels, the biggest that it makes all third-party reading-related apps second-class citizens.

I won’t be able to offer many features that iBooks has (such as a true brightness control or integration with the system dictionary), but my…

Marco comes to much the same conclusion as I did with Pages. Of course, Pages really doesn’t call any external APIs, but it does make use of private system file formats which are usually only accessible through private APIs, so there’s not a lot of difference.

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  5. goddamnhippie said: Lets hope that changes on thursday.
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  11. srdjanpejic reblogged this from marco and added:
    yet another reason why...matter how lucrative...market is....
  12. quatermain reblogged this from marco and added:
    did with Pages. Of course, Pages really doesn’t call any external APIs, but...private...
  13. derekreynolds said: Do you think they may open up someb more of the API for OS 4 and that this is a good indication?
  14. munsie reblogged this from marco and added:
    good points here,...APIs that iBooks...using might only
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