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GrandCentral Reborn As Google Voice

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the probably-should-try-that-out-again dept.

Some anonymous person wrote in to say that Google has relaunched and rebranded GrandCentral as "Google Voice." The article says it will "revolutionize telephones. It unifies your phone numbers, transcribes your voice mail, blocks telemarketers and elevates text messages to first-class communication citizens." Sadly, the voicemail didn't integrate very nicely w/ my phone back in the day, so I guess I should give it a shot.

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  1. Re:Another so called "Revolution"? Yeah ok ... by LordKronos · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Well, then explain how the article said

    Google Voice eliminates some of the annoyances of its predecessor. You can, if you wish, turn off that âoepress 1, press 2â option, so when the phone rings, you can just pick it up and start talking.

    yet you didn't seem to know it said that. And as that article indicated that this feature existed (in mandatory form, as suggested by that quote) on the old GrandCentral service, then you wouldn't have needed to be "clairevoyant" to know...you'd just need to be familiar with the old service. You DO, however, have to be a jackass to reply the way you did.

  2. Re:Another so called "Revolution"? Yeah ok ... by Viol8 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "yet you didn't seem to know it said that."

    Which bit of "I don't want" means "I don't realise they're optional"??

    Muppet.

  3. Re:Paradox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Microsoft was an engine of innovation?

    Oh yeah, they developed DOS right? Wrong, they purchased DOS (then it was QDOS, the quick and dirty operating system).

    But at least they developed Windows, that's their biggest product! Wrong, they ripped Windows off from Xerox.

    Microsoft doesn't innovate, they copy. The few things that I can name they innovated, died a quick death or were never secure. (BOB, ActiveX, etc)