Official Google Voice App Approved For iOS

silverpig writes "Apple has finally approved the official Google Voice app for iOS. After 16 months of being in app-review limbo, the app is finally here, but only for users in the US, and not for iPod Touch users. An interesting use for the app would be to use it as a dialing front end on an iPod touch in concert with a VOIP service, but it seems like this isn't an option for now. It seems like non-US users can get the app if they have a US iTunes account. You can create a US iTunes account without a credit card by following this Apple article."

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I can't believe people take this kind of abuse.

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Apple is clearly abusing its users: If you buy one of my outrageously overpriced devices, you will only be able to login as an unprivileged user, we reserve the right to login as administrators. You will be able to install applications, but only if we approve them first. We decide what apps you get and what apps you don't arbitrarily, and you have no part in that process. If you want to install an app, first you need to sign up in our store, give us all of your personal information, and you will have to give us your credit card. We are the only providers, we are a monopoly, you can't buy apps from anywhere else. Also, we'll keep 30% of what you pay for any app. We will restrict what apps you can use based on where you are, who you are, or other parameters we can arbitrarily choose later. We will actively discriminate our users. Also, your device has a kill switch, and we disable it any time we want. We also control what songs, music or other content you download, and deliberately add restrictions to those files, so they are ours, not yours.

Finally, we will add countermeasures so you can't install replace our own damn OS with your own, in an effort to keep you trapped. If you ever try, there are very high chances that our countermeasures will work and your device will become useless. We won't help you. Buy a new one.

Those are Apple's policies, and people still put up with them. That, I can't understand.

Re:I can't believe people take this kind of abuse.

[countSudoku()]

I hear that! I've been using Google Voice all year long from the iPod Touch-me-in-the-bad-place, via the little Safari Browserlet and it works great. Apple is a fucked in the head as the CEO of Oracle, which indeed stands for One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison, but I digress... I've smelled the bad Apple coming and glad I got a first gen iTouch, as the App Store BLOWS as does the performance if you're stupid enough to listen to an MP3 while trying to do anything else. Couple that with an INCONCEIVABLY long load time for a flash device and that spells; No more Apple products for me. My Mac mini's replacement will be a x86 Linux box, thank you for nothing, Steve. :)

Re:I can't believe people take this kind of abuse.

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

If you want to install an app, first you need to sign up in our store, give us all of your personal information, and you will have to give us your credit card. We are the only providers, we are a monopoly, you can't buy apps from anywhere else.

Aside from the "no other store" it's not much different than any other purchase you make online.

I believe the OP was talking about free apps. There's not many places other than Apple's store that require you to put in your credit card number to download a free app. Android marketplace certainly doesn't.

Re:I can't believe people take this kind of abuse.

[Wovel]

Seems to me greenp0ison is quite a bit easier to use then that...

Hey guys

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember when Apple was the lesser evil? Those were the days.