Apple vs. Google, Who Will Control the iPhone?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 24, 2009 @01:43AM 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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Re:Who will control the iPhone? by Gordo_1 · 2009-08-24 04:04 · Score: 1, Offtopic

> Actually yes. MythTV kicks the utter crap out of any other PVR ever made.
Um, perhaps if your sole criteria for success is ability to skip commercials? Aside from that, even wrapped in a Mythbuntu 9.0.4 LiveCD install, it's an unpolished, hardware compatibility and maintenance nightmare that has an installation routine well outside of the reach of the average consumer. I had to write a dozen scripts to get the thing to do what Windows Media Center did perfectly from the get-go -- all ina bid to get automatic commercial skipping... barely worth it IMO.