Google Sneaks into Apple's Walled Garden with Web-based Google Voice App
Google Sneaks into Apple's Walled Garden with Web-based Google Voice App
Posted 01/26/2010 at 4:21pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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With no end in sight for Apple's ridiculously long review of the Google Voice app for the iPhone, the search engine heavyweight decided to single-handedly break the deadlock. A web-based Google Voice app for the iPhone and Palm's Web OS platform is Google's repartee to Apple's delaying tactics. The HTML 5 app can be accessed from the phone's browser. This being an HTML 5 app, it is more advanced than the existing browser-based version for mobile phones.
The two companies have been on the warpath ever since last July, when Google claimed that Apple had refused to admit its Google Voice app to the App Store. Although Apple had categorically denied rejecting the app back then, Google Voice is yet to earn its approval.
“You can make calls from your phone that show your Google Voice number as the caller ID. You can also listen to voicemail and read voicemail transcripts, send and receive text messages for free, and take advantage of the low international call rates offered by Google Voice,” Google announced on the official Google Mobile blog.
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evolution76
January 26, 2010 at 10:38pm
Apple and At&T are just mad because google voice is damn good app...I use goolge voice damn near everyday...It is just a damn good program they did not come up with frist.......
The Absence of Evidence is not the Evidence of Absence
DogPatch1149
January 26, 2010 at 10:12pm
Remember AT&T whining that Google Voice violated net neutrality rules? That didn't fly. Remember Apple not approving Google Voice? That hasn't flown well, either.
Now, Google does an end-around and makes GV available on an Apple device that uses (for at least a short time, anyway) the AT&T network. That's just awesome with a side serving of kickass.
Google FTW.
1337Goose
January 26, 2010 at 5:33pm
I love this corporate flipping of the bird...
Way to stick it to Apple!
~Goose
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