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Apple vs. Google, Who Will Control the iPhone?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-a-good-question dept.

Pieroxy writes "Theiphoneblog carries a nice article on the reason Apple rejected the Google Voice application even though it doesn't violate any terms and services. The article goes in depth over the issue of controlling the hardware (Apple) vs. controlling the software (Google & Apple so far) and how Apple doesn't want Google to take over a critical part of its phone. Just like Google is going into the OS business to make sure it never gets cut out, Apple is also building a huge data center to — they guess — take over some online cloud computing business of their own and be less dependent on Google for these services."

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  1. who will control the iPhone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I know who should control it, the user.

    1. Re:who will control the iPhone by Pieroxy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      With Apple, it is very doubtful that the users will have a say. Jobs is the ultimate end-user of Apple products and will dictate his views no matter what.

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      Write boring code, not shiny code!
    2. Re:who will control the iPhone by KnownIssues · · Score: 5, Insightful

      With Apple, users do have a say... with their wallets. And users will continue to pay money to Apple because Apple continues to make products that do what those users want better than the alternatives (Microsoft, *nix, etc). So Apple will continue to dictate what can be done on/with their platform.

  2. Re:This proves that software is where the money is by readthemall · · Score: 5, Insightful
    And if you don't want to pay Apple or Google for such 'services', you can stick to the traditional model where one can choose among hundreds of phone models and use them with several providers. Just like we have several big photo camera manufacturers, and a few more independent lens manufacturers.

    A phone is just a phone and we don't need it to become another computer platform to be monopolized. Stop selling me services, please, I only need a phone (that is, hardware).

  3. Re:Who will control the iPhone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, cause hacking something developed by talented engineers from scratch takes so much more talent.