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Google Gets Its iPhone Voice
snydeq writes "Google has found a way to let iPhone owners use Google Voice, launching a Google Voice Web app that runs on iPhone 3.0 OS devices, as well as on Palm WebOS devices. The Google Voice application leverages HTML 5's functionality for running sophisticated Web applications on a browser at speeds matching those of native applications, Google said. The Google Voice-iPhone conflict is one of several issues putting the companies on a collision course, the latest of which involves Apple potentially courting Microsoft to tap Bing as the iPhone's default search."
Apple, the iPhone is the greatest cell phone in history. You cannot build them fast enough and your profit is rising year on year by 50%. This is all directly attributable to your brilliant tightly managed closed application ecosystem strategy. YOU hold all the cards, and developers have no choice but to play by the rules, meaning that you can tailor the end user experience to maximize profitability, no matter how much developers complain about the process.
I sure hope that when the iTablet is released tomorrow, you will upscale this app model to it as well, and really as an investor, I'd like to see the same thing brought to OS X in general, so that developers for all Apple platforms have to go through you FIRST before they can be allowed to make software that may damage the reputation of the company.
Most people outside of Slashdot don't know how ridiculous Apple's policies are with the iPhone,
Do you think perhaps that for the tens of millions of people who've bought an iPhone and seemingly like it, really don't care that much? Apple are making $$$ hand over fist and the phone is still selling like crazy. Little in this world comes without strings attached and if you don't like the strings that come with the iPhone then just jailbreak the bloody thing or move on and buy something else but quit whining that the world doesn't work how you think it should.