What Apple confesses: “We don’t know a damn thing about Google Voice”

If you believe the official Apple response to the FCC informal inquiry as to why Google Voice and associated applications were denied/pulled from the App Store, Apple isn’t really all that familiar with Google Voice. The Apple response reads more like a child’s bedtime story than it does a response created to show they had no ill intentions.

According to their response, Apple acted alone in killing Google Voice and then pulling apps it had previously approved. Why did Apple do this? Voodoo: “Apple does not know if there is a VoIP element in the way the Google Voice application routes calls and messages, and whether VoIP technology is used over the 3G network by the application.” Who knows what it could be doing?

Apple says they have not rejected the app. Instead, they’ve put it into the infinite loop known as we won’t reject/accept the app because it is a gray area. We’ve seen other apps go this place, ones like Newber. Newber still has not been accepted/rejected by Apple.

The main thrust appears to be the Google Voice app (and their ilk) takes away from what Apple is worked so hard to do. Apple claims Google tries to replace core functionality like the dialer, voicemail, and SMS apps, which is untrue; for the AT&T number, all calls are handled as they normally would, heck Apple knows nothing runs in the background right?

Is anyone buying this?

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