“In July, Google said that Apple had turned down its application to offer Google Voice as a native iPhone app. The rare public spat underscored the growing competition between the two tech giants and prompted the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to request more information from the companies on the matter,” Oreskovic reports. “Apple responded at the time that the Google Voice app had not been rejected, but that it was under review.”
“Google Voice allows users to make cheap long-distance calls and to forward calls from a single phone number to multiple phones, among other things,” Oreskovic reports.
“Google described the new version of Google Voice as a ‘Web app,’ noting that it is much more interactive than the previous browser-based version of the service, with the ability to listen to voice mails directly from within the browser and to dial phone numbers on an interactive on-screen keypad,” Oreskovic reports.
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MacDailyNews Note: If you have a Google Voice account, the Web app URL is google.com/voice/m
Works pretty damn well for a web app. C’mon Apple, let them add this as a native app.
F%*# Google.
@MikeK
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Bummer… I have an iPod touch and it looks like it needs to be running on a phone, i.e can’t use skype as its phone =(
@MikeK
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@MikeK
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Google Voice sucks and is a big waste of bandwidth and time!
@MikeK
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This still US-centric?
Jan 26, 10 – 12:56 pmComment from: Macaday
@MikeK
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Google?
It feels like the friend that use to be your friend, until he started “Pork’n” your sister. Is it me or is it just tough to be good friends after the that?
@MikeK
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@Brindle, do you have a newer iPod touch that has a mic input?
“in its latest effort to bypass Apple Inc’s gatekeepers and make Google Voice a popular service on the iPhone”
Nonsense. Apple always made it clear that Google could have this for iPhone via a web app. There’s no gatekeeper of any kind being bypassed.