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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."
Nope. It's up there with Flash vulnerabilities, Microsoft product catastrophes and homicidal file-system developers for stories that I can't get enough of.
the writer is somehow unaware that iPhone unlocking is trivial.
..says the guy with a Slashdot account. Ask the general public how they feel about some nebulous process they don't understand that fundamentally, and contrary to Apple's wishes, changes the way their new $500 device works. Don't assume that the general public is as technically literate as anyone here. Most people would never even understand why unlocking would be "necessary" or what it even does, let alone how to do it and not break your phone.
It's trivial for me to write an HTML form that submits to a PHP page and sends an email, but judging by the questions people ask on programming forums, that's not even trivial to most beginning developers, let alone the general public.
It's trivial for someone I work with to change the oil in their car, but I still saw a (grown) girl at the gas station the other day who couldn't figure out how to operate the air hose to fill up her tires.
It's trivial for me to figure out which version of the Flash player I have installed, but when I want that information from my end users I need to send that request to their corporate HQ, who sends it to the regional manager, who sends it to the general manager at the location, who then needs to walk the end user through the process, and get the information back to me.
In the above examples, the beginning developer, the girl at the gas station, and the end user who can't figure out what the Flash player is are all possibly iPhone users. You expect those people to be comfortable with something that you find trivial?
Talk about irrelevant opinions..
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Why on earth geeks continue to view Apple as a Good Company boggles my mind.
Really? Is it that confusing? Apple make great hardware and software. The iPhone is an amazing device, they make great laptops, Mac OSX is a great os, the ipod touch is ridiculously useful (replaced a laptop on my last trip overseas).