In an article that originally appeared on CNET.com back on September 18, 2009, Tom Krazit reported that:Google told the Federal Communications Commission in a redacted letter to the agency a few weeks ago that Apple did in fact reject its Google Voice application from the App Store.
Google dropped its request for confidentiality in the manner concerning the rejection of Google Voice from the App Store in July, and directly contradicted Apple's version of events Friday. In the letter, Google said Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller informed Google that the app had, in fact, been rejected, when Apple's public statements to the FCC in that month claimed it was merely still under review.
So, what the hell is Apple even thinking?
As a die-hard fan of a few of Apple's products I don't understand why it does a lot of what it does. I mean, the iPhone is incredible--it's capable of doing some amazing things that Apple doesn't want to let you do. You can hack your iPhone to make it do some of those things anyway (I have), but why not breed loyal customers instead of loyal business partners?
You're Apple, you don't need to bother getting along with everyone else.
So, you lie (apparently) and make us want to avoid trusting you even more than we did when we learned you put a kill-switch on every iPhone that lets you guys shut down apps on our phones if you feel like it (dont' worry, there's a hack for that, too).
That kill-switch wasn't exactly advertised on the outside of the box, ya know.
So, why try to control even more how we use the iPhones we paid for? Why not just let us use a Google Voice app? What difference does it make to you or to AT&T whether calls are initiated on the iPhone or just received?
Also, why are there no legal consequences for corporations that lie?
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