My dog ate the Google Voice iPhone app
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Blog, Mobile Phones, Google, Apple on
Reading the Apple response to the Federal Communications Commission questions regarding the non-appearance of Google Voice at the iPhone App Store is a bit like listening to a child explaining to the teacher why homework was not handed in on time.
What Apple has used so far are a vast range of reasons as to why Google Voice has not been granted App Store approval. It’s still being evaluated, is the core excuse. It raises privacy concerns is another good one.
My favourite has to be that it changes the iPhone user experience. Here’s how Apple explained that one according to the written response by Catherine Novelli, Apple Vice President: by replacing the core mobile phone voice functionality as well as the Apple iPhone interface it makes things different. Yes that is it, in a nutshell. Like almost every app in fact, it makes things different. That’s kind of the point of them, don’t you think? But no, Novelli insists that “Apple spent a lot of time and effort developing this distinct and innovative way to seamlessly deliver core functionality of the iPhone” and obviously anything that makes it better is bad, m’kay.
And who can argue that wrapping up telephone numbers, voicemail, SMS, calls and contacts via a neat interface and from the one Google Voice number doesn’t make the iPhone experience a whole lot better?
Oh yes, Apple can, apparently.
If Google Voice does not make an appearance soon, I fully expect Apple to tell us that it is because the dog has eaten it.
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