“Yet another uncomfortable admission Google has to make about its relationship with Apple: Google said for the second time in a week that it had invested time and money in creating an iPhone app, only to have it rejected by Apple,” Dan Frommer reports for The Business Insider.
“This time, it’s a Google Voice app that Apple snubbed. Google Voice is an Internet phone service that includes free calling, text messaging, intelligent call routing, etc. Last week, Google admitted that Apple rejected an app for its Latitude social networking service, which Google later launched as a Web site,” Frommer reports.
“This is not a matter of fair or foul, or good or bad, or Apple’s stifling innovation. This is Apple’s phone, and Apple’s best bet is to defer to its carrier partners, which help it sell millions of phones each quarter. (And not enough people are going to swear off the iPhone for Google Voice that it would matter to Apple, anyway.) But legit or not, we can’t help but think that this is the kind of anti-competitive activity that might eventually get Apple’s exclusive App Store scrutinized by anti-trust authorities,” Frommer opines.
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John Gruber reports for Daring Fireball that “it was indeed AT&T that objected to Google Voice apps for the iPhone. It’s that simple.”
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