{"id":1825,"date":"2009-07-28T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2013-07-28T22:16:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T06:16:05","slug":"apple-kicks-google-voice-out-of-the-iphone-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/apple-kicks-google-voice-out-of-the-iphone-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple kicks Google Voice out of the iPhone bed."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cat-meh\"<\/a>It never seems to end…\u00a0 Apple rejected Google Voice and removed GV Mobile from the app store. This is really a pain because I JUST got a work blackberry and will need to start managing my communication a little better.\u00a0 Being able to do that from my iPhone would be perfect.<\/p>\n

Seems Apple (read AT&T?) does not like that fact the amount of communication options GV Mobile and potentially Google Voice can offer. This is bad because many people in the professional world have 2 cell phone, typically the ‘office’ blackberry being the second. To be able to manage both phone numbers via a Google Voice application give the iPhone more corporate functional appeal.\u00a0 Well nix to that.<\/p>\n

So read this from PC World..<\/p>\n

Clearly, this (GV Mobile) caused … no end of discomfiture, for Kovacs said on his blog<\/a> that he received a call from the company informing him that the program was being removed for the ever-vague “duplication of features.” … Kovacs has since announced that he’ll be releasing GV Mobile for free via Cydia for those who have jailbroken their iPhones. <\/em>(oh, you KNOW I will be all over that.\u00a0 Watch for a review once I get it.)<\/p>\n

Other Google Voice programs such as GVdialer and VoiceCentral were likewise pulled; VoiceCentral’s developers said on their blog<\/a> that they were trying to reach a resolution with Apple.<\/em><\/p>\n

This really puts cold water on iphone dev’s out there trying to make interesting application that have almost anything to do with communication. What I wonder is; how much of this is coming from Apple and how much from AT&T?\u00a0 I’m not sure this ‘AT&T only’ relationship will last too much longer, esp. if there is potential of the iPhone becoming the ‘fun’ phone only; leaving corp to blackberry.\u00a0 FAIL<\/p>\n

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