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Google Voice rejection came from the top at Apple

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Friday, September 18, 2009
2 years ago2,638 views

mobile.osnews.com/story.php/22 ...

Copying the snipplet isn't possible with mobile device :(

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

2 years ago #

googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.co ...

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"Apple's representatives informed Google that the Google Voice application was rejected because Apple believed the application duplicated the core dialer functionality of the iPhone. The Apple representatives indicated that the company did not want applications that could potentially replace such functionality."

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

2 years ago #

OSNews article points to
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ne ...

which in turn states:

"Apple's rejection of the Google Voice app for the iPhone went all the way to the top—the bad news was personally delivered to Google by none other than Apple's Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller.

New details of the controversial decision came to light today when the FCC released an unredacted version of Google's own confidential letter (PDF)..."

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

2 years ago #

PS: I changed the forum software to now wrap PDF links posted here, so you can expand them to see them directly embedded via Google Docs. [Up] blogoscoped.com/forum/160425.h ...

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

2 years ago #

This is a fine feature, thanks!

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