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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:00 |
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The latest controversy in the world of mobility is, Apple has suddenly decided to take off Google Voice from the iPhone App store. Although its name might suggest otherwise, Google Voice is not a web telephony software like Skype, it is more a liaisoning service which uses voice over internet protocol (VoIP) to link customers' phone numbers together, to a single number. Even earlier Apple had taken down Google's voice enabled applications citing the reason that they "duplicate features provided by iPhone". In the current instance, more than a few people can see the invisible hand of AT&T at play in the background. Google Voice offers a number of features which clash with services ATnT provides - It allows users to send free SMS messages and get cheap long-distance over Google Voice’s lines. It also makes it trivial to switch to a new phone service, because everyone calls the Google Voice number anyway. The tech community is currently pretty irked at Apple, or AT&T behind the scenes, trying to stifle innovation. Update - Taking a cue from the enraged tech community, the govt has gotten involved. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has sent a letter to Apple, AT&T and Google asking, “why Apple rejected the Google Voice application for the iPhone and removed related “third-party applications” from its store.” Apple has some good explaining to do.
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Last Updated on Monday, 03 August 2009 18:41 |
