[mantrax5]

I like how your rant about "trying to tie people into their ecosystem" has absolutely nothing with the situation here, which is the fact Apple's apps use some harmless private APIs before they finalize them to a degree to make them public.

Tell me, what other "expected and only logical" things did you encounter while reading the article? I'm sure there's an alien invasion conspiracy theory in there somewhere.

[FireBeyond]

Bleh. Come on, this is just apologist. So much spin here about how "it might not be production ready, so of course they're just 'testing' it internally before making it widely available".

Except...

As noted elsewhere, "it's a trivial component, almost akin to a tooltip".

And iBooks, one of the apps, was introduced in January 2010, and requires iOS 4.3 or later.

People who, with a straight face, claim that Apple has needed nearly four-and-a-half years (more, really, since there was pre-release testing), and since iOS 4.3 to make sure a "trivial component" was ready for the public are really grasping at straws.