Google Voice iPhone app rejected, current GV apps lose connection with
iTunes

by Ross Miller, posted Jul 28th 2009 at 12:01AM

Perhaps the big G spoke too soon when it said its new Google Voice service
was coming to iPhone. First, GV Mobile developer Sean Kovacs relays a phone
call he had with Apple where he was notified of his app being removed from
the iTunes store for duplicating built-in iPhone features -- an app that
was originally and purportedly approved by Phil Schiller himself. Next out
the door was GVdialer, and if you thought that was all bad, now comes word
that Google's official Voice app was flat-out rejected by Cupertino. Now
it's hard to say with certainty who's to blame for these app rejections,
but a good many fingers are pointing to the cellular carriers -- and given
AT&T's previous statements about the SlingPlayer app, it's hard to argue
with that. For its part, the company hinted at finding a workaround via web
apps, much like they did when Apple gave Latitude a cold shoulder -- but
doesn't that feel just a little 2007?
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