“Google will block an iPhone application that harnesses its Google Talk chat program to provide a free text-message service after too many users flocked to download it,” Owen Fletcher reports for Macworld.
“The Infinite SMS app, which cost $1 and let users send unlimited text messages from an iPod or iPhone, quickly became one of the 10 most-downloaded apps… But the company stopped sales of the app on Monday after Google notified it that the program would be blocked,” Fletcher reports.
“Google said it would continue to offer free SMS through Google Talk… ‘Infinite SMS is a third party app that has been using Google technology to provide free SMS to users, while we were paying for the cost of the text messages,’ a Google spokesman said via e-mail,” Fletcher reports.
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