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Apple Kills Google Voice Apps On the iPhone
molnarcs writes "Apple pulls Google Voice-enabled applications from its App Store, citing duplication of functionality. The move affects both Google's official Google Voice and third party apps like Voice Central. Sean Kovacs, main developer of GV Mobile, says that he had personal approval for his app from Phil Shiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, last April. TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid suspects AT&T behind the move."
The iPhone is still absolutely unmatched in any way by its competition so if developers want to play on the leading mobile computing platform, they will have to play by Apple's rules, not theirs. Apple did the hard work of building and selling this device, so these whiners should just suck it up and get on with following the rules like everyone else.
Consistency.
Ease of use.
Integration.
Good luck getting any of that with a freetard Linux based system like Android or the Pre. The fact is, Apple absolutely deserves to be able to dictate who and what is allowed to use THEIR servers and THEIR platform in order to protect the three key pillars of their success I outlined above. If you losers want to bitch whine moan and complain, why not go develop your apps for Android or the Pre, but don't be surprised when you manage to only sell a couple of dozen copies. Selling MILLIONS of copies is only possible on the iPhone.
Oh, thats right...you can't.
You can only rent them from Apple.
These renters are sheep.
Stop complaining. It won't do anything. Apple hates developers. Apple hates users who are anything more than mindless consumers (sheep).
Do something about it and buy an Android phone. Once enough people buy an Android phone Apple will allow VoIP applications and all of the Apple FanBoi's will be able to pretend like it was there all along and start bashing Android.
But seriously, keep buying Apple stuff. I need AAPL to hit $163.00 so I can sell the 6 shares I bought for $160 in January 2008 and break even after fees. I was just kidding. Apple is great. You're not sheep. You're hip and cool.
Sorry, I think you forgot a "" in there somewhere ;)
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It's not quite so cut-and-dry. You forgot to mention the CPU, which in the Touch HD is a relatively weak Arm 11 at 528mHz rather than the significantly faster 600mHz Arm-based Cortex A8 used in the 3Gs. The Touch HD's OS is WinMo 6.1, which is not anywhere close to being as optimal as iPhone OS, not in the same league really. The Touch HD only records video at a miserable 320x240 resolution, with complaints of poor framerates, compared to the 3Gs's 640x480 video capturing with smooth framerate. The battery life of the Touch HD is about 1/3 less than the 3Gs in actual tests, so you'll surely be needing those extra batteries (granted that is a nice option to have, even if it's an edge case). The 3Gs comes with a 16GB minimum of space, up to 32GB for an extra $100. Also, both the Touch HD and the 3Gs have the 3.5mm stereo headphone jack. I won't mention the 65,000+ applications available for the 3Gs (oh wait, I just did).
I'm sure you're very happy with your Touch HD, but your comparison is a bit misleading. Handset vendors have been using bullet-point feature list comparisons for years to sell their wares, but they hardly ever give any appreciation for the difference in value between the two offerings. It's easy to look good on paper.
"I like systems, their application excepted", George Sand (French)
You're saying that software is unimportant? Thanks for making my point about worthless feature lists for me.
"I like systems, their application excepted", George Sand (French)