Apple vs. Google, Who Will Control the iPhone?

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

[je ne sais quoi]

Large companies by necessity will bow to government pressures

I'd just like to point out that there's one particular political party in the U.S. and their well-financed backers (that includes the most-often watched "news" station) that scream bloody murder and calling people nazis whenever anyone tries to get the government to provide more adequate oversight for anything, much less corporations. Maybe if that party would STFU we might have more consumer rights in the U.S. and we might have more control over our own products.