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Google, Apple Joust Over Rejected Voice App

Posted by Soulskill on from the somebody's-in-trouble dept.

ZipK writes with an update to last month's FCC inquiry that landed Apple and AT&T in hot water over the apparent rejection of a Google Voice app for the iPhone. All three companies submitted statements to the FCC — Apple claimed the app hadn't been rejected at all, that they were simply "studying" it further. The public version of Google's statement contained a redacted section, which they politely referred to as "sensitive," but after seeing Apple's comments, they decided to reveal the entire document. Google's FCC filing directly contradicts what Apple said: "Apple's representatives informed Google that the Google Voice application was rejected because Apple believed the application duplicated the core dialer functionality of the iPhone. The Apple representatives indicated that the company did not want applications that could potentially replace such functionality." (PDF, page 4.) Apple quickly released a statement reiterating that they did not reject the app.

3 of 228 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The accepted and rejected it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    That was a third party app that Apple accepted and later rejected, not the official Google Voice one. The official-from-Google Google Voice app was never available on the app store.

  2. Re:Still waiting for Google to release to Cydia/Ic by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google already supports Mobile Terminal Google code project for jail broken iPhones/iTouches, so the precedent is there.

    Just because an app is hosted on Google Code doesn't mean that Google officially supports or endorses it. Google Code is similar to Sourceforge: they accept virtually any and all projects that are licensed under an OSI-approved license.

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  3. Tell the FCC what you think by adenied · · Score: 3, Informative

    Instead of sitting around on Slashdot crying like a bunch of babies who can't open a bottle of milk, put your comments in the official record. Tell the FCC what you think. Maybe it won't have any impact, but at least your message will be out there for someone to potentially see. And who knows, if the public actually cares about this maybe the FCC will actually listen.

    There isn't an official docket for this at the FCC yet. It's contained in a rule making proceeding, RM-11361. You can file comments into the official record here:

    http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi

    As usual, try to be civil. But let the FCC know what you think. Complaining on Slashdot won't do you any good.