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Why AT&T Killed iPhone Google Voice
ZuchinniOne writes "The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting article about the likely reasons that AT&T and Apple killed the Google Voice application. 'With Google Voice, you have one Google phone number that callers use to reach you, and you pick up whichever phone — office, home or cellular — rings. You can screen calls, listen in before answering, record calls, read transcripts of your voicemails, and do free conference calls. Domestic calls and texting are free, and international calls to Europe are two cents a minute. In other words, a unified voice system, something a real phone company should have offered years ago.'"
Having somebody offer *the* reason to get an iPhone for *free* is really, really scary to them.
Google can give me a sense of superiority and belonging to the "in" crowd for *free*?
FTA: What this episode really uncovers is that AT&T is dying
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Trolling is a art,
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I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
So it sort of went like this:
FCC: Why was Google Voice was rejected from the app store?
Apple: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that Google Voice here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.
Shows what you know, Mr. Anonymous Coward! I don't usually respond to ACs, but I will anyway, Mr Anonymous smarty man!
I don't see anything that did wrong here. You see, Apple had some very good reaosns for what they did. It was an obvious move on their part to continually provide their superior service along with their superior products - it's worth paying what they charge because they're superior and they are cheaper in the long run. We all know that they offer the best overall value - that include TCO. Obviously, the deal with AT&T would have caused us Apple iPhone users some hardship and it would have cost us money. Considering this business decision I think it pretty obvious that Apple did it to protect their outstanding reputation, brand, their outstanding technology that no one else offers, and their customers.
You can post all the press releases you want and spin it to show that Apple is out to screw us fanboys over by gouging us for (mistakenly) commodity hardware in a pretty case - lies I tell you! That's just not so!
Whatever man! I have some great tunes that I need to transfer from my 17" MacBook Pro over to my iPod. I need to take a shower and put on a fresh black turtleneck and put on my Friday night arty glasses because I'm going out with my boys - there's a great show tonight with lots of show tunes. You're not going to wreck my mood!
I swear if Apple starts ranting about a good mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is so nice and lean, and the tomato is ripe... I swear... someone must "prepare to die".
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
I forward my AT&T land line number to my Google Voice number in order to block the constant AT&T telemarketers that call me.
The big surprise in Apple's memo is that they claim that Google's voicemail "disables" visual voicemail. AFAICT, they're claiming that Google, by providing a non-AT&T phone number where people can call you and leave you messages that you can fetch from your iPhone, is constructively disabling visual voicemail.
Man, I hope they don't hear about postcards.
No, this is /. It is way more like Ford shipping Buick motors in their cars, than it is Pepsi shipping Coke in their bottles.
All points of time and space are connected.
Gee...I wonder what would have been said if MS had responded to the antitrust allegations of Netscape with the following:
Contrary to published reports, Microsoft has not rejected the Netscape Navigator application, and continues to study it. The application has not been bundled with Windows because it appears to alter Windows' distinctive user experience by replacing Windows' core web browsing functionality and Microsoft user interface with its own user interface for web browsing and email. Microsoft spent a lot of time and effort developing this distinct and innovative way to seamlessly deliver internet functionality of Windows. For example, on Windows, the Internet Explorer icon that is always shown on the desktop launches Microsoft's web browser application, providing access to Favorites, History and email with Outlook Express. The Netscape Navigator application replaces Microsoft's email by routing emails through a separate Netscape Navigator application that stores any email, preventing email from being stored in Outlook Express, i.e., disabling Microsoft's email. In addition, the Windows user's entire Contacts database is imported in to Netscape Composer, and we have yet to obtain any assurances from Netscape that this data will only be used in appropriate ways. These factors present several new issues and questions to us that we are still pondering at this time...We are continuing to study the Netscape Navigator application and its potential impact on the Windows user experience. Netscape is of course free to provide Netscape Navigator and its Netscape-branded user experience on other operating systems, including Unix-based operating systems, and let consumers make their choices.
Having somebody offer *the* reason to get an iPhone for *free* is really, really scary to them.
Google can give me a sense of superiority and belonging to the "in" crowd for *free*?
Well, they used to. It was called a gmail invite.
paying $6.66 per month for 66 minutes
Dare we ask if the contract had to be signed in blood and dealt with your immortal soul?
Relatively speaking, you did.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.